Photo-illustrated books
Partial listing, 1885-1900

January 1998

Holloway, Laura C. (Laura Carter), b. 1848. Adelaide Neilson; a souvenir by Laura C. Holloway... (New York, London : Funk & Wagnalls, 1885). 58 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. 20 cm.

Centennial celebration of the incorporation of the town of Boylston, Massachusetts, August 18, 1886 (Worcester, Mass. : Sanford & Davis, 1887). 140 p. : frontis. 24 cm. Handsome gravure frontis. of celebration at church. RLIN record indicates 5 pages of plates.

Burbank, William Henry, b. 1853. Photographic printing methods. A practical guide to the professional and amateur worker (New York : Scovill Manufacturing Co., 1887). 221 p. ill. 24 cm. First ed. of series of similar titles. Photogravure frontis. and bromide print of 'Old Spanish Cottage, Santa Barbara, Calif.'.

[Pennsylvania Railroad Co.]. Souvenir: Exhibit of progress in transportation, as shown by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in the civic parade at Philadelphia, September 15th, 1887, in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States (Philadelphia : Allen, Lane & Scott, 1887). 17 p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. 31 cm. Photos of parade exhibits.

Spooner, Zilpha Harlow. Poems of the Pilgrims (Boston : Cupples, Upham & Co., 1888). [4], 99 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. 19 cm.

Van Cleve, Charlotte Ouisconsin, 1819-1907. 'Three score years and ten,' Life-long memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and other parts of the west (Minneapolis, Minn. : Harrison & Smith, 1888). 176 p. : port. 21 cm. Portrait frontis. of Van Cleve.

Eddy, Charles W. Belchertown : illustrated with pen and camera (Ware, Mass. : Charles W. Eddy, 1888). [13] leaves, [12] leaves of plates : ill. 25 cm. One of a series by Eddy on Massachusetts towns, very handsome autoglyphs.

Lietze, Ernst. Modern heliographic processes : a manual of instruction in the art of reproducing drawings, engravings, manuscripts, etc., by the action of light : for the use of engineers, architects, draughtsmen, artists, and scientists (New York : D. Van Nostrand Company, 1888). viii, 143, [5] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. 27 cm. Includes 10 examples of photoprinting, including silver prints, uranamium prints, cyanotypes.

Boston (Mass.). City Council. A memorial of Crispus Attucks, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Samuel Gray, and Patrick Carr from the City of Boston (Boston : City Council, 1889). 97 p. : ill. 27 cm. Fine gravures of the Memorial to the Boston Massacre, Boston Commons.

Burbank, W. H. (William Henry), b. 1853. Photographic printing methods : a practical guide to the professional and amateur worker (New York : Scovill & Adams Co., 1889). 2nd ed.; 225 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. 24 cm.

White, Charles R. By the sea (Portland, Me. : Lakeside Press, 1890). [52] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. 31 cm.

Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914. How the other half lives (New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1890). xv, 304 p. front., illus., plans. 20 cm. Possibly the first book illustrated with half-tones.

Memoir of Mrs. Marion Dunn (Turnbull) Crane, wife of Rev. Oliver Crane, D.D., LL.D. (New York : Wilbur B. Ketcham, 1891). vii, 191 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., ports. 21 cm. Four albumen prints, three portraits of Mrs. Crane (1848, 1872, 1888) and photo of her residence in Morristown, N.J.

Burbank, W. H. (William Henry), b. 1853. Photographic printing methods : a practical guide to the professional and amateur worker (New York : Scovill & Adams Co., 1891). 3rd ed.; 225 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., ports. 24 cm. Includes gravure frontis. by E. Edwards and bromide print by W.D. Holmes facing p. 65. Third ed. in series. Bromide print of rural Connecticut scenery.

Rochester Theological Seminery Class of 1891 (Rochester, N.Y. : s.n., 1891). [30] leaves of plates : ill.

American Institute of Mining Engineers. Souvenir programme of the visit to the anthracite coal fields, Schuylkill County, Pa., October 14th, 1892 (S.l. : s.n., 1892). 16 cm.

Mother Goose of Ô93. Photographic illustrations, by Mrs. N. Gray Bartlett. (Boston : Joseph Knight Co., 1893). [9] leaves : ill. 24 cm. Printed on loose, transparent sheets laid between heavier bound sheets.

Cottage City Illustrated (Gardner, Mass. : Lithotype Printing Co., 1895). [19] leaves : all ill. 26 cm. Very fine gravures of Cottage City, Martha's Vinyard, the beach front, houses and Methodist chapel.

Celebrities Monthly (New York : Automatic Photograph Co., 1895). [11] p. 4to. 10 mounted photos of actors and actresses (Julia Marlowe, Virginia Harned) and other celebrities (Thomas A. Edison, Rev. C.H. Parkhurst).

Drew, M. M. $1,500.00 reward! wanted for murder : Wm. H. Sprout ... Joseph Sprout ... Harry Sands, or Sanz... (Sacramento, Calif. : s.n., 1895). Broadside. 42 x 27 cm. Photographs on wanted poster.

Fifth Avenue Theatre. SheridanÕs ÒThe RivalsÓ : actual photographs of the participants : Fifth Ave. Theatre, Friday, May 31st, 2 P.M., 1895... (New York : Automatic Photograph Co., 1895). 1 v. (unpaginated) : ports. 19x30 cm. Illustrations are 11 mounted photographic portraits of the actors.

Whitaker, Louis Prevost. Glimpses of Long Island Sound (Washington, D.C. : s.n., 1897).

Blue book of the British and American colonies residing in the city. Mexico (Mexico City : s.n., 1900). 24 cm. Dummy lay-out for an apparently never-published directory, including portrait of Porfirio Diaz and 18 views of sites in and around Mexico City.


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