05-22-201305-23-2013
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
May 22, 2013 02:00 PMCalender
393A

Collection of Mostly Paper Ephemera and Photographs

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$738$600
Auction: Discovery - 2654MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: May 22, 2013 2:00PM

Description:

Collection of Mostly Paper Ephemera and Photographs, approx. thirty-two Victorian chromolithograph holiday and greeting cards, several mostly late 19th photographs including firemen dousing a house on fire, a class of children, costumed fraternal organization, insurance office, steam and sailing vessels, streetcar with passengers, two ninth-plate daguerreotype portraits of a young lady and a sleeping dog; three sixth-plate and one ninth-plate ambrotype portraits, a sixth-plate tintype of two women in a witch costume, and several loose gem-size tintype portraits; a 1926 "Manual of the United States, for the Information of Immigrants and Foreigners," a 1919 Yale University Commencement booklet, a leather wallet with divided interior, a c. 1917 U.S. Government War Savings "Thrift Card," a framed dated "1863" handwritten invitation to a commemoration ceremony at Gettysburg, a framed Charlestown, Massachusetts, winning notification of a mayoral election.
Estimate $100-150


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Keywords

insurance office, United States, Massachusetts, mayoral election, Yale University, Charlestown