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ARMSTRONG, NEIL
Photograph of the Lunar Module and Buzz Aldrin deploying a scientific experiment on the moon, signed by all three crew members: Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins and by NASA Administrator Thomas Paine. NASA, 1969
A RARELY SIGNED SPACE PHOTOGRAPH, signed by the crew of Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the Moon: Neil Armstrong (commander), Buzz Aldrin (lunar module pilot), and Michael Collins (command module pilot) and by NASA Administrator Thomas Paine.
$28,000
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(GARDNER, ALEXANDER.) Gardner, O'Sullivan, Barnard, and others
A fine collection of 7 classic Civil War photographs from Gardner’s Sketch Book. Washington: Gardner, [1865-66]
A splendid collection of Gardner prints.
$27,000
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(STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER.) John A. Whipple
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Boston, 1853
This is a fine salt print portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe by John A. Whipple, a leading early American portrait photographer.
$25,000
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(LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) Alexander Gardner
Abraham Lincoln. Washington, November 8, 1863
This famous “Gettysburg portrait,” with Lincoln looking directly into the camera, was made just days before he delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863.
$25,000
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STEICHEN, EDWARD
The Matriarch. New York, [1935, printed ca. 1960s]
Steichen made this celebrated photograph for a fundraising campaign for the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies during the first dark days of Nazi Germany.
$25,000
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WEED, CHARLES LEANDER
Sentinel Rock, 3270 Feet High. San Francisco, 1864
This spectacular view shows Sentinel Rock towering above a rider on horseback in a well-lit clearing.
$25,000
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Robertson, James and Felice & Antonio Beato
The Temple Mount, Jerusalem. Jerusalem, 1857
This landmark two-part view of the Temple Mount is one of the very earliest multi-part panoramic photographs of Jerusalem.
$25,000
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Cameron, Julia Margaret
George Frederic Watts. Cameron, October 1865
This splendid portrait is inscribed and signed on the mount by Cameron: “G.F. Watts From Life not enlarged Julia Margaret Cameron.”
$22,000
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SAN FRANCISCO
Buildings of [the] Fair Heirs in San Francisco. Original photographs of the pre-earthquake real estate holdings of the heirs of James Graham Fair.. San Francisco, 1901-1905
A real estate tycoon’s San Francisco: this album documents approximately forty downtown San Francisco real estate holdings of the heirs of real estate, silver, and railroad magnate James Graham Fair. This album belonged to Fair’s daughter Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt, first wife of William K. Vanderbilt II.
$22,000
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(CIVIL WAR)
Civil War carte-de-visite album featuring many signed CDVs. Mathew Brady and others, 1860s
This important Civil War album includes carte-de-visite photographs signed by the following Civil War notables: Winfield Scott (signed on verso), Joseph Hooker, George McClellan, Fitz John Porter, Louis Philippe, comte de Paris, Robert d’Orleans, Duke of Chartres, Robert Anderson, William Seward, Gideon Welles, Simon Cameron, Montgomery Blair.
$18,500