Sale 2458 - Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, October 19, 2017

311 311 c   (HAIR STYLES) A lovely group of 6 stereoviews depicting fashionableVictorian coiffures for women. Arch-topped albumen prints, the images measuring approximately overall 3 5 / 8 x6 1 / 2 inches (9.2x16.5 cm.), on light orange mounts; the cards on a secondary contemporary mount. Circa 1870s-80s [400/600] 312 c   (TINTYPES) Collection of approximately 114 interesting American tintypes of fun subjects including engaging portraits, numerous occupational studies, outdoor views, musicians, children with toys, and Masonic figures. With 2 double full-plate hand painted enlargements; 6 full plates (including a sideboarded home with the family and a man atop a Penny Farthing bicycle posed outside); 7 half plates (including a light eyed Masonic man in an ornamental sash, a train conductor with his ticket book, and a copy of a carte-de-visite); 9 quarter-plates (including a hand-tinted boy and his puppy posing in a faux-outdoor scene, a father and son with their bicycles, a man on his healthy steed, and an outdoor scene of a house and carriage); 83 sixth-plates (including an apparent Native American man in headdress with medals and a rifle, a young girl curtsying to the photographer, a handsome man checking his pocketwatch, a pair of pharmacists, a sharply dressed African American man, a host of occupationals, beer and whiskey drinkers, smokers, card players, salesmen, a pair of young women and their picnic basket, a fireman, and two Union soldiers outside a military tent); 7 ninth-plates and smaller (including a centrally composed image of a quaint white cottage, and a vividly hand-colored tintype medallion of a dapper young man with an affixed color matching ribbon). 1860s-90s [1,800/2,200] Lot 312