PHOTOGRAPHY

Our photography collection includes maritime themed images in a variety of 19th and early 20th century formats. Images include those of Civil War and naval, whaling, and yachting many by prominent photographers.

A0344 CHARMING AMBROTYPE OF DOG

A wonderful quarter plate ambrotype of a Spaniel dog with hand coloring. Mounted in a mint thermoplastic case of the Washington Monument.

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$725

A0295 MAMMOTH CIVIL WAR PHOTO OF USS SANTEE

This very rare mammoth plate albumen photo of the 44 gun frigate SANTEE was taken by noted photographer J. W Black. in 1864. She is shown at Newport RI after she saw active duty during the Civil War. At the end of the war she and the USS CONSTITUTION moved to Naval Academy at Annapolis. She was built at Portsmouth and launch in 1855.

The title is hand lettered and the image measures 12 x 16 (sight)

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$650

A0075. SHORE WHALING MONTEREY, CAL

A rare pair of cabinet card photos showing cutting in a whale on a Monterey beach by C.W. Johnson, c 1885

Monterey was a center for shore whaling along the coast of California.

The photos had been trimmed with period labels as shown.

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$495

A0057. STEREOVIEW WALNUT STREET WHARF NEW BEDFORD.

Fine view showing view of the whale ship CHEROKEE

and other shipping. No photographer's mark, c.1870

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$65

A0058. STEREOVIEW FULTON FERRY, NY.

Fine view showing forest of shipping at New York. No photographer's mark, c 1870

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$75

A0063. PHOTO USS CONTELLATION 1876

Original albumen photograph of the famous USS Constellation now preserved in Baltimore MD. Taken by W H Heiss of Philadelphia in 1876. Hand painted flags, in original walnut frame. 8 x 10 inches (sight)

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$350

A0077 LARGE CIVIL WAR PHOTO OF USS TUSCARORA WITH COMMISION OF D. H. CROWELL

Captain David H. Crowell 1820-1920 of Chatham Massachusetts entered the U S Navy in 1861 and served as Acting Master aboard the USS Tuscarora. Prior to his enlistment in the Civil War, he headed a party of Argonauts to California during the Gold Rush.

This period photograph, commission, signed by Navy Secretary Gideon Wells and the CDV of Crowell were owned by him. The albumen of the Tuscarora is huge measuring 13.5 x 18 inches (sight) in period frame. The reverse inscribed with Crowell's service on the warship. Click the link below for Crowell's biography published in: Chatham Sea Captains in the Age of Sail

Capt. David H. Crowell

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$1750

A0072. DAUNTLESS & CORONET RACE 1887

This is a famous image of the celebrated yacht race off the coast of Ireland. The Dauntless was an America's Cup contender, built in 1866 at Mystic CT. By Nathaniel L. Stebbens. Image size: 7.5 x 9 inches.

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