houseworth thomas (17 risultati)

No Binding. Condizione: Fine. Circa 1870's. Original stereocard on orange board. Board dimensions, 6 3/4 X 3 1/2, photograph dimensions, 6 X 3 inches. Title on base of board. Photograph is of a railroad track that has been laid between a cut hill of rock. A small dint is on the top edge, approx 1/4 inch. A small pencil size hole is on the left picture.

Ca 1870s. Cf. Palmquist, p. 124. Square, separate images. 3-7/16" x 6-7/8" Some general wear & soiling. Small stain to upper right of left image. Slight bow to card. A VG copy. Orange colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to right end; series title [Yo-semite Valley] to left end; scene caption under right view. Pale pink verso with publisher imprint, noting the award of the Bronze medal at the Paris International Exhibition, 1867.

Ca 1870s. Cf. Palmquist, p. 124. Domed, separate images. 3-7/16" x 6-7/8" Some general wear & light soiling from handling, small adhesive abrasion & staining to veso. Slight bow to card. Images sharp. A VG [if not slightly better] copy. Orange colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to right end; series title [Yo-Semite, Cal.] to left end; scene caption under right view. Pale pink verso with publisher imprint, noting the award of the Bronze medal at the Paris International Exhibition, 1867.

Ca 1870s. Cf. Palmquist, p. 124. Square, separate images. 3-7/16" x 6-7/8" Some general wear & light soiling from handling. Slight bow to card. Image sharp. Very Good - VG+ overall. Orange colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to right end; series title to left end; scene caption under right view. Pale pink verso with publisher imprint, noting the award of the Bronze medal at the Paris International Exhibition, 1867.

Ca 1870. Cf. Palmquist, p. 99. Square, separate images. 3-3/8" x 6-7/8" Some general wear from handling. Slight bow to card. Image fairly sharp. Very Good overall. Orange colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to each end; scene caption under right view. Pale pink verso with publisher imprint, noting the award of the Bronze medal at the Paris International Exhibition, 1867.

Ca late 1860s. Cf. Palmquist, p. 95. Square images. 3-1/4" x 6-3/4" Only very modest wear & soiling from handling. Very slight bow to card. Images clear & sharp, with one small imperfection in the top portion of the right image. Withal, Very Good Plus. Yellow colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to right end; series name ["Lake Tahoe"] to left; typeset printed label as scene caption affixed under right view. Photographer imprint to verso center. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.

Ca 1868 - 1869. Cf Palmquist, p. 95. Series title a cancel. Separate images, domed. 3-7/16" x 6-7/8" "The Eureka Mill, among the largest on the Carson River, was erected in 1861 and equipped with 20 stamps and four arrastras, giving it a capacity of 30 tons per day. By 1865 it was processing ore from the Yellow Jacket Mine. In 1871, the Union Mill & Mining Company took over and began rebuilding the mill. The short Eureka Mill Railroad was also constructed to connect to the Virginia & Truckee Railroad by March 1872. Completed at a cost of $200,000, the New Eureka Mill had sixty stamps and a capacity of nearly 200 tons per day, and in 1875 was called the largest and finest mill in the state by the Territorial Enterprise. Unfortunately, the mill was ultimately lost to fire in 1892." [Nevada Expeditions website]. Images clear & sharp, albeit with a couple faint rub spots. Minor extremity wear & soiling to mount. Stain to upper left of verso. Very Good. Orange colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to right end; series name to left; scene caption under right view. Violet verso, blank.

Ca 1865. Cf. Palmquist, p. 59. Square, separate images. 3-1/4" x 6-3/4" Donner Lake is a freshwater lake in NE California on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada and about 20 miles NW of Lake Tahoe. The lake is located in the town of Truckee, and which may be viewed from the nearby Donner Pass. Both the lake and the pass were named after the ill-fated Donner Party, which wintered involuntarily, and tragically, near the lake in 1846, approximately 19-20 years before this image was taken. Per Palmquist, LAWRENCE & HOUSEWORTH, p. 59, "Dating clues suggest that these views were produced during the period 1864 - March 1865." Per Mautz, "The firm produced many of the best of the early stereoviews of California." [p. 145]. An uncommon early L & H California view, with no listings for same found on OCLC [at the time of cataloguing]. Only very modest wear & soiling from handling. Very slight bow to card. Images clear & sharp, with the right slightly darker. Very Good. Yellow colored mount [square corners], with publisher imprint to right end; series name ["California"] to left; typeset printed label as scene caption affixed under right view. Photographer imprint to verso center. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.

Ca 1870s. Cf. Palmquist, p. 124. Square, separate images. 3-7/16" x 6-7/8" Some general wear & light soiling from handling. Slight bow to card. Image sharp. A nice example, VG+ overall. Orange colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to right end; series title to left end; scene caption under right view. Pale pink verso with publisher imprint, noting the award of the Bronze medal at the Paris International Exhibition, 1867.

Ca 1874. Cf. Palmquist, p. 42, 97. Title & view number hand inked under right image. Domed, separate images. 3-3/8" x 6-15/16" Some general wear from handling. Faint crease lines to verso (just barely visible in images on close inspection). Left image with a bit of spotting. Verso with penciled note: "c. 1874. Photographic Parlor to right". An About Very Good survivor. Orange colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to right end; "San Francisco" to left. Blank pale pink verso.

Stereoview [8.5 cm x 17 cm] Orange mount. No backstamp.

Ca 1870. Cf. Palmquist, p. 99. Square, separate images. 3-7/16" x 7" Only light wear & soiling. Slight bow to card. Images sharp. Very Good Plus. Orange colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to each end; scene caption under right view. Pale pink verso with publisher imprint, noting the award of the Bronze medal at the Paris International Exhibition, 1867.

Carte de Visite. Albumen photograph [8 cm x 5.5 cm] on a white Pacific Insurance Company mount [10 cm x 6 cm] Pacific Insurance Company backstamp. Nice condition. View shows the former Pacific Insurance Company building that was located on the northwestern corner of California and Leidesdorff streets in San Francisco. Lawrence & Houseworth was a partnership between optician George S. Lawrence and photographer Thomas Houseworth, 1864-67. The firm produced many of the best early views of California as well as the earliest mammoth plate views of Yosemite by C.L. Weed.

Ca 1872. Cf Palmquist, p. 36. Separate images, domed. 3-5/16" x 6-3/4" Some extremity wear, with close cropping to top/bottom edge [just affecting printed caption]. Faint vertical crease visible on verso, which has a penciled title. Very Good. Orange colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher imprint to right end; series name ["San Francisco"] to left; scene caption under right view. Violet verso, blank.

Dome top later card issued by Thomas Houseworth & Co. of an image copyright by Lawrence and Houseworth in 1866. Very good. (#166964).

Title caption & view number printed under right image. Square, separate images. 3-7/16" x 6-7/8" Some minor wear & soiling from handling. Excellent detail in images. A solid Very Good copy. Yellow colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher copyright statement to right end; "San Francisco" to left. Yellow verso, with Houseworth's Paris Exhibition imprint.

Ca 1874. Title caption & view number printed under right image. Square, separate images. 3-1/4" x 6-3/4" Images clear & sharp, only modest wear & soiling to View, a VG+ - Nr Fine example & uncommon thus. Yellow colored mount [rounded corners], with publisher copyright notice to right end; "Hydraulic Mining" to left. Yellow verso, with Houseworth's "Photographic Views of the Pacific Coast" imprint.