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Yellowstone Park - Mr. Doose - Vintage Photo - 1893

1893

Yellowstone Lake - September 25th, 1893 - is an original vintage black and white photo realized during a journey throughout the world performed by Prince Franz Ferdinand von Osterreich Este (1863-1914), heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Despite his affairs and the growing importance of his role within the Empire, he took a year off his duties to travel the world, from North Africa to India, East Asia, Australia, and America, where he attended the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair...

Mountain view is a color vintage photo, realized in 1930s. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album includin...

"Impressions of the High Sierras", a Lithobrome Photograph by Sigismund Blumann (American, 1872-1956). Signed "Sigismund Blumann" lower right. Titled "Impressions of the High Sierras" and signed "Sigismund Blumann" on verso. Unframed. Image size, 10.25"H x 13.25"W. Sigismund Blumann (1872–1956) (figure 1) was a prominent tastemaker in Californian photography during the 1920s and 1930s. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area for his entire career, he edited magazines, wrote books, and made creative photographs. From 1924 to 1933 Blumann edited Camera Craft, the leading West Coast photographic monthly. Subsequently he established his own periodical, Photo Art Monthly, which he published until 1940. In these two magazines — for over fifteen years — Blumann found a large audience of mainstream pictorial photographers. In addition, he wrote five instructional books on photography...

Titled in ink on the front of the mount. Derived from a significant 19th-century album acquired in the 1980s in Washington, D.C., which contained several Watkins mammoth plates, as w...