May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 49

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(SHARPSHOOTERS)
Unusual album filled with approximately 40 photographs of men and women taking aim and posing with their guns, dogs, families, and riflery classmates, with many professional portraits. Primarily albumen and printing-out paper prints, with some silver prints, most mounted on cabinet or cartes-de-visite cards, and measuring 3 1/2x2 to 7 3/4x6 inches (8.9x5.1 to 19.7x15.2 cm.), and the reverse, inserted into decorative windows on stiff boards, many with handwritten captions; including several unmounted silver prints. 4to, worn leather, backstrip perished. 1870s-1920s