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(CHILDREN)
A group of 52 photographs of children, many depicting them engaged in calisthenics.
Silver prints, the images measuring 5x8
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4
inches (12.7x21 cm.), the mounts 10x12 inches (25.4x30.5
cm.), and smaller, approximately 22 with captions, in ink, and about 13 with a District no. 15
Hempstead hand stamp, on mount recto. Circa 1900
[900/1,200]
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(VERNACULAR FAMILY)
A pair of albums with more than 1000 photographs by Frank and Kitty Brust documenting
their many day trips and life together, and Frank’s business.
The Scranton, Pennsylvania couple are shown taking trips and weekend adventures in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, including bucolic country scenes, river and lake views, city gatherings, and even
flying an airplane.The album documents their social circle in a series of sensitive portraits, and also
includes a series of compelling office portraits from Mr. Brust’s Dental Company, which specialized
in making dentures: the office employees (as well as colleagues in the business) are composed in
arty setups behind a bank of drawers or at their desks. Silver prints, the images measuring 4
1
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2
x2
3
/
4
inches (11.4x7 cm.), and smaller, and the reverse, most in corners recto/verso, some hand colored,
all with either a typed caption or a handwritten identification below the image (some with dates).
Oblong 4tos, leather and cloth, twin-bolt bindings, one cover detached. Circa 1915-27
[800/1,200]
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