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Fall Photographic History Auction, 2025

Sat, Sep 6, 2025 01:00PM EDT
  2025-09-06 13:00:00 2025-09-06 13:00:00 America/New_York Michael Lehr Michael Lehr : Fall Photographic History Auction, 2025 https://auction.michaellehrantiques.com/auctions/michael-lehr-antiques/fall-photographic-history-auction-2025-20189
We are pleased to announce our next auction, featuring approximately 200 individual lots drawn from a diverse and compelling range of 19th- and early 20th-century photography. This sale focuses on vernacular images, photographs created not as formal studio portraits or elite commissions, but as direct, unscripted records of lived experience. These are objects made by and for everyday people, preserving moments of intimacy, labor, travel, performance, identity, and loss.
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Lot 270

A group of 4 half plate Tintypes and Stereo of Identfied Irasburg Vermont farm, 1879

Estimate: $400 - $600
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$200

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A remarkable group of four half plate tintypes accompanied by an original stereo card depicting the same rural Vermont farmstead in 1879. The white-painted farmhouse, barns, and outbuildings are nestled into a rocky hillside in Irasburg, Vermont, and appear in varying seasonal conditions and group compositions, each offering unique documentary value. The images show an evolving gathering of men, women, children, and horse-drawn wagons, all posed with a striking sense of pride and permanence in front of the property. The stereo card provides a near-identical perspective to the earliest tintype in the group, lending a rare opportunity to compare formats across decades and techniques. The verso is printed with the imprint of "Farmer Taylor, Portrait and Landscape Photographer" of Coaticook, Quebec, part of his "Vermont & Canadian Scenery" series. Pencil notations date the stereo view to 1879 and identify the location as Irasburg, Vermont. The visual consistency of the house, its architectural details, and the steeply sloping hillside confirms the location across all five views. Taken together, the group offers a comprehensive and unusually intimate look at a rural Vermont homestead during the 19th century, as it appeared in both tintype and albumen stereoview form. A rare survival and valuable addition to Vermont regional photography or early American architectural documentation.

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