Hanover National Bank Building and American Surety Building, with Equitable Building excavation. New York, 1913

The view looks south along Pine Street toward two early skyscrapers: the Hanover National Bank Building and the American Surety Building on the right.

$4,500

FDR Funeral 1945. [Published in LIFE], taken in 1945, printed later

Signed and inscribed by the photographer: “FDR Funeral 1945, Edward Clark, Life.” Famed Life photographer Edward Clark took this celebrated picture in 1945 at the funeral of Franklin D. Roosevelt in Atlanta.

$4,200

Street excavation with Belmont Hotel. New York, 1900-1910

This remarkable photograph records a stretch of old New York in the midst of destructive renewal. Rising across the background is a row of narrow buildings, upper stories crowded with iron balconies and fire escapes, and ground floors occupied by small businesses.  

$4,000

Collection of 7 photographs of now demolished New York buildings. New York, 1870s-1890s

These seven photographs document buildings that no longer exist, most of them demolished to make way for something taller, wider, more profitable, or simply more modern. Read together, they constitute something of an accidental record of the city’s relentless appetite for its own past. 

$4,000

Collection of 3 photographs of Madison Square. New York, 1890s

This collection of six photographs shows Madison Square and its iconic landmarks.

$4,000

East Front of the Capitol. Washington, c. 1864

This photograph by Alexander Gardner shows the Capitol as it was during Lincoln’s presidency. Scaffolding, cranes, ladders, and other construction equipment are visible. The East Front of the Capitol was the site of Lincoln’s inaugurations in 1861 and 1865.

$3,800

splendid large portrait of John Burroughs. Photographic Portrait by Pach Brothers., 1890s

John Burroughs (1837-1921) was, after Henry David Thoreau, the greatest American nature essayist. He played an important role in the development of he American conservation movement. Burroughs is also remembered for his close friendship with Walt Whitman, whom he resembled in old age.

$3,800

Mortar Dictator, in Front of Petersburg. Petersburg, Va., October 1864

This fascinating photograph is a variant of the image shown in Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War. In that image, a group of Union officers including the chief of artillery of the Army of the Potomac stands in the foreground, while five members of the mortar crew stand in the background. In the present photograph, shells have been moved to the foreground, and the full crew of nine men is present. The photographs are otherwise essentially identical.

$3,500

Inspection of Union Troops at Cumberland Landing, Pamunkey, Virginia. Cumberland Landing, Virginia, May 1862

This famous view shows a Union Army encampment at Cumberland Landing on the Pamunkey in Virginia.

$3,500

Fabulous Albumen Photograph depicting Richardson and his great-grandson as they appeared in the Statue of Liberty Parade in New York. New York: Benjamin Richardson, c. 1886

Benjamin Richardson, the great collector of patriotic Americana, owned and rode in George Washington’s carriage in the Statue of Liberty dedication paradise in New York in 1886.

$3,500