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June 2026 Vernacular Photo History Auction

Wed, Jun 24, 2026 11:00AM EDT
  2026-06-24 11:00:00 2026-06-24 11:00:00 America/New_York Michael Lehr Michael Lehr : June 2026 Vernacular Photo History Auction https://auction.michaellehrantiques.com/auctions/michael-lehr-antiques/june-2026-vernacular-photo-history-auction-23574
Our June 2026 auction presents a focused and exceptional selection of historical photographs spanning the 1840s through the early twentieth century, with unusual depth in named subjects, rare formats, and documented provenance anchored by strong vernacular material that rewards close looking.
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Lot 223

Accordion Style Album, With CDVs and Tintypes, 1896

Estimate: $100 - $200
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$50

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An accordion-style Victorian photograph album containing a mixed collection of tintypes and CDVs, identified on the interior front panel as belonging to Mary Cloins and dated 1896, with a secondary inscription reading "Rosa Nold 1938." The dark cloth-covered cover bears an embossed gilt border and the word "Album" in raised decorative lettering. The album opens as a continuous accordion-fold structure, with arched window openings on each panel holding individual photographs.

Subjects across the panels include a young man in a dark suit, a small oval tintype of two boys in matching jackets identified below as "Urban & Jacob?," a frontal portrait of a woman in a printed shirtwaist with a bow at the collar, a woman in a patterned dress with a large tied neck scarf, a group of men gathered around an outdoor table, a couple posed before a tent backdrop with the inscription "Chas Keller? Mary? Aunt," a full-length CDV of a woman in a hooped crinoline dress standing beside a carved chair, and two nearly identical CDV portraits of the same seated woman in a plaid wide-skirt dress with a cross pendant.

The accordion format is an uncommon variant of the standard Victorian carte-de-visite album, designed to display a sequence of images when fully extended rather than turned page by page.

The front interior panel bears the inscriptions "Mary Cloins Album 1896" and "Rosa Nold 1938" in two distinct hands, suggesting the album passed between owners over four decades.

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