cyanotypes (5 Ergebnisse)

Tapa dura c/ estuche. Zustand: Muy bien. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Nuevo. Walther, Peter (illustrator). Primera edición. EXCELENTE ejemplar con estuche, ejemplar numerado 1328. Obra completa. 660 pp + 1h.

Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. Six heavy cardstock leaves (oblong, 280 x 200 mm), bound with ribbon. "New Bedford" in calligraphic handwriting on first (cover) leaf; the remaining 5 leaves with tipped-on cyanotypes (173 x 120 mm), captioned in ink in the bottom margin. Front and rear cover a bit foxed, else fine. Beautiful views, beautifully printed, they include: Purchase Street City Block; City Library, William and Pleasant Street; Union Street Looking East; Orchard Street, Looking South; The Wharf and Dismantled Whalers. An elegant little keepsake.

Quarto, example of eastern binding late 1890-1900's. Green cloth over paper. Chinese characters in black on front cover translate to: 1901. This appears to be a ledger book that has been used instead as a scrapbook. Each page consist of a sheet approx. 21 inches folded once, printed with vertical red lines with Chinese script on fold. This interesting and varied collection contains clippings, photos and other ephemera from the early 1900's, kept in the pages of a hand-bound Asian ledger book. An ownership inscription reads: Thos. B. Swanney Trip to California, Jan 27, 1901. The book begins as a scrapbook with clippings from famous California sites such as Golden Gate, Cliff House, Seal Rocks, and China Town - all photos from Waters Nickel Series; and clippings from various magazines or postcards. The scrapbook records a sightseeing trip that would seem to begin in San Francisco and proceed through Santa Barbara along the coast by rail to Pasadena and Pikes Peak. Photos of the Mount Tamalpais Railway. Most of the original photos 3 1/3 inch square with people as subjects. Many photos of courting couples, Gibson Girl fashions and hair, buggies, and men in swimming attire at the beach. Of particular interest are photos from St. Augustine Florida, including six cyanotypes; as well as photos at the (now historic) St. Augustine Alligator Farm (founded in 1893) - photos show the courting couple viewing the alligators - as well as Wedding photos that include the only dated caption Feb 14, 1901. Other ephemera include A hand-written poem entitled To The Sea on stationary from the S. S. Majestic; a typed poem dated 1927; dried leaves, and a Customs Notice for Passengers dated 1897.

Oblong album, 6 1/2 x 5 inches, 8 leaves with 16 original cyanotypes 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches mounted within rules recto and verso on thick card leaves. The front card cover is titled and decorated with a sketch and borders all in cyanotype; the rear has cyanotype borders; bound with silk ribbons. There is a crack to the front board with a small chip at the lower edge. The photographs are sharp and in fine condition. Weyauwega (meaning "here we rest") is a small town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, first founded as a stopping point for Native Americans portaging between the two rivers; later populated by fur traders. The compiler of this album wrote on the recto of the front cover (in cyanotype), " HOW DEAR TO THIS HEART ARE THE SCENES OF MY CHILDHOOD" The images included views of a large white house with a white picket fence, scenes along the river front, a dam on the river, the Church, a horse and buggy parade down the main street, barns and other structures, etc.

Zustand: Very Good. N.p.: ca. 1910, though photographs developed ca. 1950. Oblong octavo (15x21cm.); hand-made photo album of contemporary ribbon-bound linen boards; [12]ll. of stiff card stock to which are mounted twenty-four (24) cyanotype photographs measuring ca. 9.5x12cm, occasionally captioned with ballpoint pen. Boards a bit bowed, minor soil to binding and interior, otherwise Very Good, photographs in fine condition. Sparsely-captioned family album of cyanotypes, an experimental photography process popular between 1885 and 1910 and striking for the brilliant blue hues of the images. No dates or locations are provided, though the images mostly capture a young white girl named Virgie Witt and her brother John, as well as the family's Black cook "Aunt Liza." Young Virgie appears in four of the images while John and Aunt Liza are given equal billing at three images. Perhaps tellingly, the great-grand-mother in her austere black garb appears just once. The family appears to have resided in a wood and stone farmhouse on a river, the children captured in shots while churning butter, playing with their many animals (dogs, cats, horses, sheep and a donkey), and fishing or watering a herd of cows on the river. The three portraits of Aunt Liza show her in serious conversation with young Virgie; hanging laundry to dry on a clothesline in the yard; and wiping down a bowl while standing beside a wooden tub on the lawn. Though the caption describes her simply as the "cook," her duties appear to have extended far beyond that title. Based on the quality of the prints, the album, and the captions, these photographs presumably developed at a much later date than when the photographs were first taken, possibly a couple generations later.