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188530592Chacago: Smith's Studio of Photography 1885. Housed in an elaborately decorated wood frame with gilt fabric and hand-painted mat. 1 vols. Image 5 x 3-1/2 inches; overall frame is 14-1/4 x 12-1/4 inches. Fine condition. Housed in an elaborately decorated wood frame with gilt fabric and hand-painted mat. 1 vols. Image 5 x 3-1/2 inches; overall frame is 14-1/4 x 12-1/4 inches. The elaborately dressed child wearing a pensive look sits on a low plush-covered bench; the photographer's advertisement on back for "Children's Photos par excellence" gives the firm's address as 206 N. Clark Street in what was Chicago's fashionable Near North Side. The frame is a bravura creation of rich complexity easier viewed than described. A splendid piece of late-19th century upscale Americana. Smith's Studio of Photography unknown
18764126Montreal QC: Wm. Notman 1876. Mounted Photograph. Near Fine. A nice image with many interesting architectural details a host of carriage drivers horses people in the park and the mast of a ship visible down the street in the harbor. Albumen and silver salts on paper titled in negative "Place d'Armes Montreal" at bottom right. Photo measures 7.5 x 9 inches wide mounted on card measuring 7.5 x 9.25 inches wide. Photo with some fading mostly along bottom edge near title card mount slightly curved with browning verso. McCord Museum has this image in their collection also unsigned as Object Number II-41752 and date it 1876. Wm. Notman unknown
1893438975The Studio 1893. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Very good copy bound in contemporary 1/2 leather over cloth. Gilt-blocked leather label to spine with raised bands uniformly tooled in gilt. All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dulled as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Notes; No title page or indication of year published. Title from spine. The Studio hardcover
