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Period album containing 38 playful images, comprising 4 cartes-de-visite, one tintype and 34 c-d-
v-size drawings, pen-and-ink illustrations or prints enhanced with ink, featuring a cast of humorous
characters, including 9-year old Humphrey, Humphrey’s stern Italian nurse, 6-year old Meta,
Humphrey’s brother, Cousin Rubicon,Aunt Cuspidora, Miss Take, Miss Mezzanine, and others; the
photographs have hand-drawn elements that shift gender, alter hairstyles and essentially play with
representational elements of the photographic portrait.The tintype depicts a handsome young man
with a twinkle in his eye, lightly rouged cheeks and unusually long hair (which was added, with
ink). Small 4to, hand-tooled gilt-pictorial morocco, worn; brass clasp. 1860s
[600/900]
From the Collection of Thomas Harris.
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American student’s souvenir album with more than 50 classmates’ photographs, many with charming
Victorian sentiments. Gem-size oval albumen prints and one tintype, each approximately one inch
(2.5 cm.) in diameter. 8vo, dark green morocco, backstrip partially detached; several pages loose.
1862-1863
[400/600]
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Eastman Business College album with 55 personalized photographic stamps of students, friends,
and the faculty; each is signed and many with an inscription in beautiful calligraphic script; one is annotated
by the owner, Ernest Simon. Small 4to, gilt-lettered black seal-grain leather; all edges gilt. 1897.
From the Collection of John Silverstein.
During the 1890s, a local photographer, Charles Gallup, made a practice of photographing Eastman
College’s students and staff, then copying their images on Genelli or Hayatt multiple-lens cameras.The
resulting miniature albumen stamp photos were perforated and gummed, then provided to each student
for placement in their handmade graduation albums.
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