
John Foster|Accidental Mysteries
December 5, 2014
Citizen photographers

Photographer’s display: a large frame containing forty-eight sixth-plate daguerreotype studio portraits from the 1850s
Page from an album entitled “Criminal Photographs No. 19. Thomas Cunningham, Sheriff, Stockton, Cal.,” containing more than 600 mug shots, c. 1880s–90s
One of a group of photographs by Stanley Hoyt (active 1900–1915) of San Francisco billboards after the 1906 earthquake, c. 1907–08

This image comes from a binder containing thirty-six occupational photographs taken in Portland, Oregon and Challam Bay, Washington by the commercial photographers Arthur M. Prentiss and W. A. Ellison, c. 1915
ID badges, c. 1940s–50s
Wilson A. Bentley, gold-chloride toned microphotographs from glass plate negatives, circa 1910
Mexican folk portrait, c. 1940s
A French photo postcard, feauturing a pre-Raphaelite-like woman embellished with human hair, c. 1910s–40s
Mansell James Swift (1854–1942), 
Tongue of a Blow Fly, oversized albumen print, 1885
An image from an archive of more than 135 photographs relating to the cultivation of corn, c. 1880s–1950s
All images courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries
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