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(CHILDREN)

Group of 20 class portraits of American students, comprising those depicting a teacher and her

charges posing in front of a one-room clapboard schoolhouse and much larger groups of public

school city kids depicted in front of a brick building or in classroom settings.Albumen (2), printing-

out paper (6), and silver (12) prints, 4

1

/

2

x6

1

/

2

to 7

1

/

2

x9

3

/

4

inches (11.4x16.5 to 19.1x241 cm.), each

is mounted, a few with the photographer’s credit on mount recto or notations on mount verso. Late

1880s-1920s

[500/750]

From the Collection of Gary Calderwood.

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(POST-MORTEM)

German post-mortem of young girl.Albumen

print, 4

7

/

8

x3

3

/

8

inches (4.9x8.6 cm.), housed

in a decorative mount with metallic silver and

blue adornments, and with the German text

“Abwesend doch nicht vergessen [Gone but

not forgotten];” in an ornamental 3-layer

frame. Circa 1875

[400/600]

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