Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

328 c   (BOHEMIAN GROVE, CALIFORNIA) Album entitled Bohemian Mid-Summer Jinks , with 22 photographs of this exclusive male campground for the rich and famous secreted in the redwoods. With pictures of “the grove plays” (a theatrical production with orchestral accompaniment), informal group portraits, and a print of Maynard Dixon painting. Silver prints, the images measuring 6x8 inches (15.2x20.3 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, each a protective glassine interleafing sheet, and an inventory number and date in the negative. Oblong 4to, gilt-lettered morocco. 1909 [2,000/3,000] The Grove Plays of the Bohemian Club was a multi-volume set published by the Bohemian Club, with photographic reproductions and illustrated by Maynard Dixon. 328 329 c   (REAL PHOTO POSTCARDS— LIVING EMBLEM) A fascinating collection with 28 “living photographs,” each with vast groups of humans arranged in formations depicting a particular slogan or emblem. Including groupings of people, each organized into detailed configurations such as the American f lag, the greeting “Hi Mom!”; and a profile portrait of President Woodrow Wilson. Silver prints on postcard paper, the images measuring approximately 3 1 / 2 x5 inches (8.9x12.7 cm.), many with captions in the negative, and some with captions, in pencil or ink, on verso, others postally unused. Circa 1910s-40s WITH—Two printed postcards featuring Mole & Thomas photographs, each measuring approximately 1 / 2 x5 inches (8.9x12.7 cm.). 1940s. [1,200/1,800] 329