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Auction archive: Lot number 158

Isaiah West Taber commercial photo album

Estimate
US$80,000 - US$120,000
Price realised:
US$48,000
Auction archive: Lot number 158

Isaiah West Taber commercial photo album

Estimate
US$80,000 - US$120,000
Price realised:
US$48,000
Beschreibung:

[60] pp. With 46 mounted albumen photographs on stiff gilt-framed stock. Most photos 19.8x23.2 cm (8x10") with a few in smaller format. Some photographs en face with advertisements and descriptive text. (Oblong folio) 26x36.5 cm (10¼x14½"), polished calf album with gilt-stamped cover title. Offered with print advertisement for Taber's New Photographic Parlors, 22.8x14 cm (5½x9"). Also with a loose albumen photograph "Hotel Del Monte in Mid-Winter", 25x19.2 cm (9¾x7½"). Most photos with Taber's logo and identification number. Isaiah West Taber was the leading entrepreneurial photographer of 19th-century California and the self-proclaimed master of the instantaneous photograph. Of particular note is the interior view of the Taber studio. San Francisco views include: Taber's Studios The Baldwin Hotel Golden Gate Park The Van Ness Hotel Hotel Pleasanton Chinese Butcher and Grocery Shop in Chinatown Maud Stover (theater actress) Ships in SF Bay: Cruiser Charleston, Cruiser Olympia, and Cruiser Monterey. Oakland and Berkeley views include: An Oakland school run by Mrs. M.K. Blake Hotel Crellin Mills Seminary and College Lakeside Sanitorium (near Lake Merritt) State University, Berkeley, CA Yosemite views include: El Capitan Mirror Lake Agassiz Column Vernal Falls (multiple views) Nevada Falls Glacier Point Other views include: Lick Observatory Carmel Mission Hotel Del Monte Santa Barbara Mission Los Olivos in Santa Barbara and large Santa Barbara Grape Vine The Palasades Geyser Canyon Devil's Pulpit Mammoth Forest Big Trees Tuolomne Grove Mt. Shasta O&C Railroad Loop featuring three trestles in Siskiyou, CA Alaska - general and section views of Muir Glacier

Auction archive: Lot number 158
Auction:
Datum:
6 Feb 2020
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

[60] pp. With 46 mounted albumen photographs on stiff gilt-framed stock. Most photos 19.8x23.2 cm (8x10") with a few in smaller format. Some photographs en face with advertisements and descriptive text. (Oblong folio) 26x36.5 cm (10¼x14½"), polished calf album with gilt-stamped cover title. Offered with print advertisement for Taber's New Photographic Parlors, 22.8x14 cm (5½x9"). Also with a loose albumen photograph "Hotel Del Monte in Mid-Winter", 25x19.2 cm (9¾x7½"). Most photos with Taber's logo and identification number. Isaiah West Taber was the leading entrepreneurial photographer of 19th-century California and the self-proclaimed master of the instantaneous photograph. Of particular note is the interior view of the Taber studio. San Francisco views include: Taber's Studios The Baldwin Hotel Golden Gate Park The Van Ness Hotel Hotel Pleasanton Chinese Butcher and Grocery Shop in Chinatown Maud Stover (theater actress) Ships in SF Bay: Cruiser Charleston, Cruiser Olympia, and Cruiser Monterey. Oakland and Berkeley views include: An Oakland school run by Mrs. M.K. Blake Hotel Crellin Mills Seminary and College Lakeside Sanitorium (near Lake Merritt) State University, Berkeley, CA Yosemite views include: El Capitan Mirror Lake Agassiz Column Vernal Falls (multiple views) Nevada Falls Glacier Point Other views include: Lick Observatory Carmel Mission Hotel Del Monte Santa Barbara Mission Los Olivos in Santa Barbara and large Santa Barbara Grape Vine The Palasades Geyser Canyon Devil's Pulpit Mammoth Forest Big Trees Tuolomne Grove Mt. Shasta O&C Railroad Loop featuring three trestles in Siskiyou, CA Alaska - general and section views of Muir Glacier

Auction archive: Lot number 158
Auction:
Datum:
6 Feb 2020
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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