Search Results: Titles starting with A from House of Mirth Photos

7.25" x 13.5" January calendar, featuring Abraham Lincoln for the Peoples Savings Bank in Yonkers, NY. An embossed saying on the calendar flap says "May each days happy end portend rich promise for the morrow." The back of the calendar features other slogans from different prominent men. In good overall condition.

Vintage 2.375" x 3.5" snapshot attached to part of an album page measuring 2.5" x 4.25." "Boots" is written on the page. Probably a mistake photo. In good condition.

An archive of 380+ photographs from the family of Kirk Douglas, including: - snapshots & press photographs of Kirk Douglas, his wife, childhood pictures of Michael Douglas & Joel Douglas - snapshots & photographs of the family of Kirk Douglas' sister Betty Demsky Simon and her husband Lou - early Kirk Douglas publicity shots - a photo signed by Kirk Douglas to his sister Betty Demsky Simon and her husband Lou. Most of the photos are Black & White with a few in color. Many photos are loose. About 100 photos are in a circa 1920s/30s photo album. There are also approximately 80 photos glued to a few loose album pages. There are over 30 vintage press and publicity shots of Kirk Douglas, including some rare ones. There are about twenty 8"x 10" photographs of Douglas interacting with his family: frolicking with his wife in a swimming pool; kissing an unidentified blonde starlet; his wife and third son, Peter, visiting the set of Vikings (1958); holding Peter aloft like a trophy; a professionally… Read More

Twelve 8" x 10" photos of actress and singer Winifred Heidt. Four of the photos signed by her. Also included is a brochure from 1947 about Heidt, who appeared in Bizet's Carmen in the title role. She also appeared on Broadway.

10" x 13" photo album with over 150 snapshots of college women enjoying themselves. Dates in the album range from 1929 to 1941, with about two thirds of the album from the early 30s, with the last part showing post college family life. Notable images include a mock wedding party with women dressed as men, with other identified pics including Seneca Lake, Watkins Glen, Jones Beach, the Fenway, Buttermilk Falls, Cambridge, Cape Code, etc. The college is not identified by name, but I figured out by some addresses mentioned, that this is from Simmons College (now a University) a private women focused undergraduate university and private co-educational graduate school in Boston. Two photos are missing, otherwise it is in good condition.

1910. There are over 140 snapshots inside this 7.25" x 11.75" photo album with gilded lettering on the cover stamped in the name "Agnes W. Bacon". Photos are various sizes and are glued to the page. There are shots of gals in costume (stereotyping and other), playing tennis, a polo game, snapshots put together to make a panoramic image of a lake scene, boating, etc. it appears that Bacon went to Yale, and a Google search indicates that she was there from 1917-1920 in the art department, but it is unclear if she graduated. The album is complete and in good overall condition.

9"x 12" cemetery or mausoleum marker for "Mother - Dec. 25, 1867 - Feb. 9, 1930." Born right after slavery was abolished, I imagine that this unidentified black woman had stories to tell. This piece weighs just under 5 pounds and includes a photo under glass, of a beautiful woman.

Fifty-seven photobooth photos with two arcade photos of African Americans,including men, women and children. They generally date from the 1930s to the 1950s. The photobooths measure about 1.5"x 2" and the two Arcade photos are slightly larger, measuring about 3" x 4." As with typical photobooth photos, there is edge wear, where they have been separated form the photobooth strips and some have stains, bends or small tears. All photos are shown.

7" x 11" suede bound photo album showing "The Kiss of the Oceans," along with "Photo-Log, U.S. Navy, Panama" on the front cover. The first photo shown in the album is a 5" x 8" photo of the USS Dutchess. The next photo is the same size and is identified as "S-Division, Ship's Company," with several black men. This album appears to have been kept by an African American sailor who was onboard the USS Dutchess, a Windsor-class attack transport that served with the US navy during World War II. There is a six-page, double sided, hand-written log, which details stops in Panama, Philippines, Hawaii, Marshal Islands, Saipan, Okinawa, California and Seattle. "My Log and Diary" starts on February 26, 1945 and goes till around late June 1945. Some interesting entries include: En route from Panama to Pearl Harbor: Arrive at Pearl Harbor at 07:30. General quarters drill. Disembark the 1500 Seabees and Marine passengers. While on liberty today in Honolulu, I ran into my brother in-law, Joseph P. Coleman. Had… Read More

There are 400 photos in this 1930s and 40s photo album, with about 250 from Alaska, while the owner of this album was in the military, before and during World War II. The other 150 photos are from his family life with a few pics from Camp Lee, Virginia and Fort Dix in New Jersey. There are about 65 real photo postcards from the 1930s, several marked with "Photograph approved by theatre censor" marks. These photos are from Anchorage, Chitina, Mt McKinley, Valdez, etc, and show a military funeral, moose, Indians, baseball games, military life etc. Other photos include snapshots of various sizes, including a few enlargements. Many of these photos are marked as being from "Fort Richardson, Alaska, 1943, 177th Engr. Regt." In the back of the album, one page says "Off Limits" and behind this page are seven risqué photos of women. The album measures about 11" x 14" with cardboard type covers. The spine is loose and some pages are detached. Photos are held to the page with corner tabs and some… Read More

There are three hundred and sixty-eight, mostly 3.625" x 6" snapshots and a couple of enlargements in this 1906-1947 expansive photo album. The first part of the album documents the owner's travels through Europe, from leaving the US on the Lancastria, to Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, and Monaco. The second part of the album documents travel along the Pacific coast of the US and Canada, from bear hunting and more in Alaska and Glacier Bay, through the Canadian Rockies, Victoria and Vancouver, B.C., to Olympia, WA, Crater Lake in Oregon, California and down to New Mexico. Photos of the West and Pacific Coast total over 100. A few other places shown include: Juneau, Wrangell, Sitka, Seward, Haines, Dead Horse Gulch, Topanga Canyon, etc. The third part of the album includes portraits of family and friends around the country, including Beverly, MA, as well as three photos of President Taft and several more of who are presumably his staff, including two black servants.… Read More

14.75 x 9.5" brown suede photo album with painted illustrations of sled dogs and a totem pole on the cover, along with a poem about Alaska. The album on the cover reads: Where The North Begins Oh give me the tang of the bracing air, The woods, the birds and the tall trees there; The babbling brooks with their speckled trout, Lakes teeming with fish, Indians trapping about; The bounding deer and the scenery grand, Mirrored in waters o'er golden sand, All these are singing natures hymns, Up where the North begins. The album appears to have been put together by Inez Morningstar between 1951 and 1954 while living on an Air Force Base in Alaska. According to an online search, Morningstar was employed in the Civil Service in Anchorage. At the front of the album there are handwritten poems about Alaska and a list of clubs visited and places seen; these are written in a white pen that rubbed off on some other pages. There are over 120 photos with around 82 black and white photos and 40 Kodacolor photos of… Read More

9.5" x 11.5" circa 1940s/50s photo album with twenty-three photos from Alaska. Shots include Cook Inlet, Wassilla Lake and Inuits. Some photos are identified within the negative and some are not. Twelves photos measure 4.25" x 5.5," one measures 8"x 10" and ten measure 5" x 7." One photo is loose, otherwise they are on sticky paper which is covered by plastic. Some beautiful images.

Sixteen mostly 5.25" x 7" photos with a couple smaller images, show the Anzani airplane engines from Around 1910. Some of the photos have handwritten notations on the versos, and are housed in an envelope for "Anzani, Moteurs d'Aviation." Alessandro Anzani (1877-1956) was born in Italy, where he taught himself how to make engines for motorcycles, cars, boats and eventually airplanes. He moved to Paris around 1900 and was involved with racing motorcycles. He worked for Cornet, a manufacturer of motorcycles, who let him use their workshop to develop an engine. With money he won in motorcycle racing, he set up a workshop near Paris in Courbevoie, where he worked on developing engines. One of those engines was a lightweight three-cylinder engine that Louis Bleriot would use in a plane that crossed the English Channel in 1909. Eventually he would license his engines to be used by different manufacturers. He retired just shy of his 50th birthday in 1927 and retired to Normandy. He never qualified for a… Read More

3.5" x 5.5" vintage real photo postcard of a nude woman. Unused with an EKKP stamp box. Light edge/corner wear.

9 1/2" x 11 1/2" x 1 1/2"; 20 leaves/40 pages, black, plus decorative grey end papers Front cover completely detached; back cover attached but stripped of protective/decorative layer, as is spine; both covers worn all around. All pages, by contrast, fully intact, attached, in excellent condition, with neither tears nor folds; some minor chipping of the first few pages. Inside front cover has a photo-portrait of a young Japanese girl wrapped in exquisite kimono - possibly royalty. Facing the photo on the end paper - seven autographs, in English, of Japanese names. There are seventy-one black and white photos, all in excellent condition, pasted to the page. Most photos measure 3 1/16" x 4 7/16" (including white borders) - with many exceptions - usually, two photos to a page End papers and inside covers utilized for photos - except both inside endpapers Black pages 8 7/8" x 11 1/8" - finely ridged all around The photos are so well laid out and squarely pasted that, given the addition of the… Read More

This 11 1/8" x 14 3/4", 62 leaves/ 124 pages scrapbook was put together by Margaret Sloan Colt, who was an American Red Cross ranking official, who was located in London during World War II. Written on the first page is "Arrived in London October 15th, 1942," and dates the scrapbook from Oct. 1942-July 1943. It is jam packed and includes letters, secret documents, invitations, seating arrangements, itinerary, ID and membership cards, photographs, magazine articles, and newspaper clippings. Margaret Sloan Colt served as Assistant Director of Volunteer Special Services for the American Red Cross. She began serving the American Red Cross during the First World War. During World War II, she was transferred to Great Britain and occupied a similar position. Sloan Colt quickly ascended the ranks to Director of Staff Welfare, and became a member of the National Committee on Volunteer Service for the American Red Cross in Great Britain. Margaret Sloan Colt's husband was the grandson of the inventor of the… Read More

There are ninety-two black and white photographs of various sizes on fourteen pages in this photo album of one US army man's time in Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan. The spiral-bound album measures 11.5" x 14.125" and has a navy faux leather cover, embossed with the word Photographs, with black paper pages inside. Photos are attached with photo corners and/or glue. The inside cover provides the only annotation in the album (save one typewritten caption) reading: "J. L. Thomas, Fuchu Ord. Depot, 8123rd Army Unit, A.P.O. 503" and "Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan." One loose ~8.5" x 10.5" photo is captioned Tokyo Horse Racing Track, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan, by J. L. Thomas." The photographer had a nice eye for snapshots - many of the photos have quite a striking yet casual quality to them. Contents include: street views and a collapsed building, children and shrine gates, portraits of beautiful women doing ordinary things, eating delicious meals, a well-attended drag race on the beach, Army men playing baseball, portraits of other… Read More

46 leaves/ 80 pages, 270 photographs. Photos vary in size. Album measures 14 1/2" x 9". WAR is written on the front cover. "War '18-'19" written on the spine. The album also contains a few photos from after the war. During World War I, American soldier of New Haven, Connecticut goes abroad to France and Germany. This album exhibits the camaraderie between American, French, and other allied armies. This album provides nuance and quotidian perspective to the Great War, the First World War. Each of the 270 photos are provided with detailed captions which name people, place, and other specifics. Within are portraits, prisoners, transport, processions, marches, athletics, graves, and monumental destruction. There are the remains of Lunévillee, Seichprey, Douaumont, Rheims; the "Powder Towed" (the Heidelberg Castle - of the Napoleonic Era), and rubble of the Soissons Cathedral. There are photos of international cooperations (a chief from Spain, another from Senegal, etc), photos of soldiers receiving… Read More

Two loose leaf notebooks measuring 10" x 11.5," with over 200 drawings and notes that appear to have belonged to a man named Arko, who was a Polaroid employee in the 1970s. There are a handful of photos as well, including one where two people give the finger to the snapshooter. Most of the drawings and notes, which are on scrap pieces of paper, reference fellow Polaroid employees and the Polaroid company as well. Some things would be considered politically incorrect today, and it is evident, that morale was low at the company.