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Antique photographs and drawings of ornate objects like embroidered saddles and vases, showcasing decorative art from the 19th century.

Indian Bead Work, Yankee Notions, Knic Knacs, &c; American; about 1865; Albumen silver print
Indian Bead Work, Yankee Notions, Knic Knacs, &c; American; about 1865; Albumen silver print
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Funeral wreath. UnknownWilliam P Shearwood, Printed Quilt Patterns, 1935 1942 Printed Quilt PatternsFive Cartes-de Vision with two ovale and three round ornaments, c. 1866 - c. 1900 Photograph. visit card On the Cartes-de Visite at the top are two oval medallions with wine and beer trophies, including the name Alberti, on the Cartes-de Vision at the bottom of Amoretti are those fruits, Amor and Bacchus Wine Persend and the Element Vuur, All to Thorwaldsen. paper. cardboard albumen printThree snowy rowing boats at a shore, 1895 print The boats are in the ice. paper rowing-boat, canoe, etc.. snow. ice ~ state of waterStill life of flowers in a vase, Alice Pontoppidan, c. 1896 - in or before 1901 photomechanical print paper flowersShowcase with silver objects, center below lies cutlery; Lombok vitrine (silver). .John Quill, clerk of Robert Shark, sitting on a high stool, Anonymous, 1852 - 1863 stereograph cardboard. paper albumen print sales clerkO Yka (Olica, Ukraine). A collegiate church of this Trinity - a bowl with an image of or around 1916 (negative); around 1916-ok. 1922 (print) (1914-00-00-1922-00-00);A group of Venetian glass products (two goblets and a vase from the cover) from the collection of minutes Institut, Liegnitz; Belitski, Ludwig (1830-1902); 1854- (1854-00-00-1854-00-00);Legnica (Dolnośląskie Voivodeship), minutes of Institut (Legnica), chalk, artistic crafts, glass (artist)Still life of boudoir with basket of flowers and white cat. Louis Jules Duboscq-Soleil (French, 1817 - 1886)Exhibition of Ottoman objects during the World Exhibition in Antwerp; Section Ottoman. .Paris, Imprimerie Eudes, Dujardin, Lyon, 17th century Flemish wooden cabinet and a 17th century Italian wooden cabinet, at the Exposition Rétrospective of 1877 in Lyon, France, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photographs, photographically illustrated books, EXPOSITION RÉTROSPECTIVE DE LYON, PAR JB GIRAUD., PL. XLIX., PL. L., CABINET, ART FLAMAND_XVIIe SIÈCLE, COLLECTION DE Mr E. AYNARD., CABINET, ART ITALIEN_XVIIe SIÈCLE, COLLECTION DE Mr CHAMBRIÈRES-ARLÈS., height 462 mm, width 305 mm, photographer, 1877 - 1880, paper, heliogravure, cliché maker, French, printerSoap Bubble Set. Joseph Cornell; American, 1903-1972. Date: 1940. Dimensions: 34.3 × 48.3 × 7.6 cm (13 1/2 × 19 × 3 in.). Wood, glass, paper, metal, and shell. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.Travel album with photos of Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Germany. Photo album in green leather folder with copper slot. The front is decorated with a gold-colored frame in embossed and with intertwined metal letters SMCN. The rear also has a gold-colored frame. The bracts are from changing paper. The album contains 49 blades with gold on slices with a total of 82 photos of landscape, city and village views in Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Germany. The album also contains 7 collages from dried flowers and plants, which has in all likelihoods bring the compiler from said countries.Reproduction of an iron shield, representing a battlefield, Berthier, c. 1859 - in or before 1864 photomechanical print Paris paper photolithography protective weapons: shield. battleExhibition in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht/ in the Centraal Museum was opened last Friday, an exhibition of medieval art was opened, which will be visiting for some time/ a showcase with very expensive and rare Delft pottery.Stereo photograph of glass engravings in the Venetian style by Naylor & Co., exhibited at the London World Exhibition in 1862, captured on albumin paper.Showcase with various objects of glass and metal, including a donate jug; Vitters crafts. This is the device of the display case before emptying in October 1959.Eight book bindings, Anonymous, c. 1920 - c. 1940 photograph Eight book bindings, two of which opened and two on the cut. These photos are part of an album. Netherlands (possibly) paper. photographic support gelatin silver print book-cover, binding. book with claspsPortrait of an unknown woman, The London School of Photography, c. 1855 - c. 1870 photograph glass. metal. velvet (fabric weave). wood (plant material) ambrotype historical persons - BB - womanDisplay of earthenware utensils, anonymous, c. 1880 - in or before 1881 photomechanical print Barcelona paper collotype container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vaseBrazilian cotton exhibit, Agricultural Hall. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1876. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Exhibitions, Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)Ancient silver reliquary; Jehenne, Jean-Baptiste Joseph (Fl. 185.-187.), Lemertcier, Rose Joseph (Paris 1858-1862 (1858-00-00-1862-00-00);Napkin of Linnendamast with weapons. White Linnendamast napkin with pattern of weapons from Heeckeren and van Wassenaer, brand crown HW 36 and 1846.The collections of Mathias and Maria Bersohn at an exhibition of ancient and newly used, applied to the industry, applied in the building of the Museum of Industry and Agriculture in Warsaw in 1889 - a fragment of the entity from the exhibition collections of artistic objects: plaques, ceramics, clocks, furniture, oriental products; 1889 (1889-00-00-1890-00-00);Bersohn, Maria, Bersohn, Mathias (1823-1908), Bersohn, Mathias (1823-1908)-collections, Kraushar, Aleksander (1843-1931)-collection, industry and agriculture museum (Warsaw), Society for the Care of the past (Warsaw - 1906-1944) - collection, exhibition of antiquity (Warsaw - 1889/1890), ceramics (artist), gift (provenance), collections, artistic crafts, oriental topics, interiors, exhibitions, harvest, clocksFurniture pieces and still lifes. Leaf 10 Recto from a sketchbook with 19 sheets.Leaf from a photo album, with 7 photos (unassembled carte-de-visits) and with ink-mounted edge decorations, Mary Georgiana Filmer (Lady) (attributed to), c. 1865 - c. 1870 photograph United Kingdom paper. baryta paper. ink albumen printDefender, 1895, from the Famous Ships series (N50) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes 1895 Issued by Allen & Ginter American Trade cards from the "Famous Ships" series (N50), issued in 1895 by Allen & Ginter to promote Virginia Brights Cigarettes. Full series consists of 48 unnumbered cards.. Defender, 1895, from the Famous Ships series (N50) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes 418858Jar. Dated: probably 1937. Dimensions: overall: 28.5 x 22.6 cm (11 1/4 x 8 7/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 12 1/4" High 7" Dia(top) 8 3/8" Dia(base). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Tarantino.William Henry Fox Talbot's salt paper photograph from The Pencil of Nature VI depicts glass objects, showing shape, transparency, and surface reflections.Shoemaker H. Buchholz from Hornburg. .Embroidery sample, Medium: silk, metallic thread, paper Technique: embroidery on uncut voided supplementary warp pile (velvet); in paper envelope, Dark purple uncut voided velvet with small triangular pattern embroidered in elaborate border pattern of flowers and leaves in silver, brilliants, and white silk., France, ca. 1770, embroidery & stitching, Embroidery sampleAzalia Boquet , Bouquets, FlowersCount Cantacuzene (one of a pair) 18th century Russian. Count Cantacuzene (one of a pair). Russian. 18th century. Verre églomisé. Glass-PaintedNautilus cup from the sixteenth century at the exhibition of Antiquities in Delft, A.L. Oversluijs, After Anonymous, c. 1855 - In or Before 1863 photograph This photo is part of a cover with 35 photos on 16 sheets. Delft paper albumen print nautilus cup DelftPhoto Frames, 1880 - 1900 photograph. frame olive (wood). glass. baryta paper. cardboard. metal gelatin silver print historical persons. historical persons - BB - woman. marriage, married couple, 'matrimonium'Souvenir. Culture: French, Paris. Dimensions: 3-3/8 x 2-1/8 in. (8.6 x 5.4 cm). Date: 1768-75.Young women in antique costumes make offerings to cupid. Miniaturists imitated vignettes such as this one, which is carved in mother-of-pearl. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Portrait of an unknown man, Anonymous, 1840 - 1860 photograph copper (metal). glass. paper historical persons. adult manCard Number 503, Miss McKenzie, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes. Dimensions: Sheet: 2 11/16 × 1 3/8 in. (6.8 × 3.5 cm). Publisher: Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.). Date: 1880s.Trade cards from the set "Actors and Actresses" (N145-7), issued in the 1880s by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes. There are eight subsets of the N145 series. Various subsets sport different card designs and also promote different tobacco brands represented by W. Duke Sons & Company. This card is from the seventh subset, N145-7. Note that actors' names are spelled differently on cards throughout set and are not dependable for accuracy. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Photo Frames. .Two Floral Decorative Ornaments, Anonymous, 1700 - 1799 print paper floral interlace ~ ornamentBox Of Stereoscopic Views, Thirty-Six Selected Haynes Stereoscopic Views of the Yellowstone National Park; Photographed by Frank Jay Haynes (American, 1853 - 1921); cream paperboard; Overall: 18.4 x 9.5 x 5.1 cm (7 1/4 x 3 3/4 x 2 in.) Each card: 8.9 x 17.7 cm (3 1/2 x 7 in.) Each photograph mounted side by side: 8 x 7.5 cm (3 3/16 x 3 in.)Box Of Stereoscopic Views, Thirty-Six Selected Haynes Stereoscopic Views of the Yellowstone National Park; Photographed by Frank Jay Haynes (American, 1853 - 1921); cream paperboard; Overall: 18.4 x 9.5 x 5.1 cm (7 1/4 x 3 3/4 x 2 in.) Each card: 8.9 x 17.7 cm (3 1/2 x 7 in.) Each photograph mounted side by side: 8 x 7.5 cm (3 3/16 x 3 in.)half-length view of a young man, 1852-1858, Jeremiah Gurney, American, 1812 - 1895, 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (10.8 x 8.26 cm) (image)4 3/4 x 3 13/16 x 3/4 in. (12.07 x 9.68 x 1.91 cm) (mount), Daguerreotype (1/4 plate), hand tinted, United States, 19th centuryCairo, Béchard, Emile, Délié, Hippolyte, Jewelry from the tomb of Ahhotep I, on display in the Boulaq Museum in Cairo, Egypt, photograph, photo, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, height 194 mm, width 251 mm, French, photographer, 1866 - 1871, photographic paper, photo paper, albumen print, albumine printDisplay cabinets with objects at the exhibition for National Industry and Art in the Palace for Volksvlijt, Amsterdam ..Still life of tropical fruits. Part of photo album by Robert Daniel Crommelin (1841-1907).A stereo-format photograph of a statuette titled 'The Kind Mother' with two vases, preserved on albumin paper in its original box around 1860.The golden flower: cards titled 'moonlight' and 'October beauty' with text by Richard Henry Stoddard and Robert Browning; depicting flowers, lanterns, the moon, night and decorative design.. Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler) (1854-1938). Proofs, Cards. 1865 - 1899. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Night, Lanterns, Decoration and ornamentThe picture shows how the balloon house wall to the north torn to the start .. The picture shows how the balloon house wall towards the north torn before start.The bell from 1739 with a church in Pcim (Galicia), requisitioned in 1917/1918 - a general view between other bells; Not after 5.10.1918 (1917-00-00-1918-00-00);Doll Factory, Dressing Dolls, Sonneburg, Germany.. Underwood & Underwood (American, founded 1881, dissolved 1940s)Trade cards depicting flowers, women, books, raspberries and bees.. Trade cards. 1876 - 1890. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Bees, FlowersSnijders, Frans, Photo reproduction of Market piece by Frans Snijders, verso, This photo is part of an album., photograph, photo, carte-de-visite, reproduction, album sheet, photos, Fruchtmarkt, recto - handwritten, 2094, height 84 mm, width 51 mm, photographer, 1870 - 1890, cardboard, photographic paper, photo paper, albumen print, albumine print, South Netherlands, 1579-11-11 - 1657-08-19Shah of Persia, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-2) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. 1888 Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. Trade cards from the "Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms" series (N126-2), issued in 1888 by W. Duke, Sons & Co. There are two types of cards from the series. The first type is made of thick stock and does not fold. This variation promotes Honest Long Cut tobacco. The second type, pictured here, is printed on thinner stock and is meant to be folded in three parts. This variation promotes Duke's Cigarettes, Cameo, and Turkish Cross-Cut brands.. Shah of Persia, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-2) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co.. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.)Still life , Karl Wiener -, artistDaguerreotype - J. William Dawson, 1847Portrait of a sitting man, anonymous, c. 1855 - 1870 photograph. frame glass. wood (plant material). metal ambrotype historical persons. adult man. sitting figureUntitled (Case with portraits of a man and woman and hair ornaments), c. 1870s. 19th century. Photographs: photographs on enamel, framed in copper alloy metal frames; hair lockets: hair with pen and black and ink on cream-colored backing; case: leather with metal push-clasp and velvet-lined interior; image: 3.5 x 3 cm (1 3/8 x 1 3/16 in.); case: 9 x 5 x 1 cm (3 9/16 x 1 15/16 x 3/8 in.). The photographs of this man and woman, presumably husband and wife, are juxtaposed with clippings of their hair arranged to form their initials, A and M. In the late 1800s, photographic portraits and hair clippings combined in jewelry or frames served as mementos or memorials for loved ones. For permanence, the portraits here were vitrified on enamel, a process now used primarily for funerary monuments.Baroque vintage element with arabesque and flourish motif. Sketch of ornate design element. Hand drawing vintage baroque style. Vector isolated engraving illustration. For decoration, print and design. Baroque vintage element with flourish motif vector illustrationSectionsist village in the rotunda charity festival, lucky harbor and sales tent Zur Wiener Musik with a flower -patterned tent roof, Verlag or k, University bookstore R, Lechner Wilh, Müller, photographer, publisherGermany, Berlin, Stasi Museum, DDR-era secret police museum in former headquarters, exhibit of secret police victims, sealed jars containing sponges of human scent, allowed victim to be tracked by specially trained dogsItalian exhibit, Agricultural Hall. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1876. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Exhibitions, Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)Abby Frances Snow, 2 1/2 years old Made 1839-1860 United States. Daguerreotype . UnknownThe Old Oaken Bucket.. Unknown maker, AmericanVintage Photograph. A still life with a bible and candle.Ornament with monogram ihs.arabesken with a sun with monogram in the middle.Cigarette cards entitled 'between the act and bravo' depicting actresses Marie Roze, Mlle Sarah Bernhardt, Kate Girard and Lizzie Harold ; oval shaped trade cards depicting flowers.. Trade cards. 1876 - 1890. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Actresses, FlowersBanknote motif: the number 20 against an ornamental lathe work oval resembling woven rope ca. 1824-42 Associated with Cyrus Durand American. Banknote motif: the number 20 against an ornamental lathe work oval resembling woven rope 393969Portugal flag, Anonymous, 1667 - 1670 drawing Flag of Portugal. Flag with horizontal jobs of red, white and blue. Over it a black cross with a white cross in it. Flag on flagsteng and mast foot. Depicted on folio 71r. Part of a flag book with flags from Europe, North Africa, Near and Far East. France paper. ink. watercolor (paint) pen / brush flag, colours (as symbol of the state, etc.) PortugalUntitled Made 1839-1899 Unknown Place. Ambrotype . UnknownFeathers of MoaGermany, Baden Wuerttemberg, Senior man looking photo ablum through magnifying glassThe Homework Table, c. 1840s-50s. America. Daguerreotype, quarter plate; overall: 8.3 x 10.8 cm (3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.).Portrait of an unknown mother and daughter, Anonymous, 1855 photograph copper (metal). glass. leather. velvet (fabric weave) historical persons. mother and baby or young childPhotograph of various types of German gas shells, taken by the Ordnance Department in 1918. This image shows a collection of explosive shells used by the Germans during World War One. The shells were recovered and documented as a part of military investigations.1852-1858, Jeremiah Gurney, American, 1812 - 1895, 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (13.97 x 10.8 cm) (image)6 x 4 3/4 x 7/8 in. (15.24 x 12.07 x 2.22 cm) (mount), Daguerreotype (1/2 plate), hand-tinted, United States, 19th centuryJoseph Pennell, Steel Bars for Shells, 1916 Steel Bars for ShellsDinner in honor of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, 8:00PM. Pier table with flower arrangement, set up in preparation for a dinner in honor of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shahanshah of Iran, and his wife, the Empress Farah Pahlavi. A portrait of George Washington hangs on wall above the table. Cross Hall, White House, Washington, D.C.Blancard, Hippolyte (1843 - D.1924), Exhibition of 1889. Cave of the Stone Age, children and trolley with arms, 7th arrondissement, Paris (dummy title), 1889. Platinum draw. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.Found a Prize.. Franklin G. Weller (American, 1833 - 1877)Shells in Putnam, Charleston Harbor, S.C., Vintage photographyGuard Rails. State: Germany.Print from Album of Photographs: Architecture in India Possibly Samuel Bourne (British, 1834-1912). Print from Album of Photographs: Architecture in India, 1862-1872. Albumen silver photograph, 8 3/16 x 10 13/16 in. (20.8 x 27.5 cm). Asian Art 1862-1872Weighing the Tea Leaves; Shinichi Suzuki (Japanese, 1835 - 1919); Japan; about 1873 - 1883; Hand-colored Albumen silver print