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Fall Photographic History Auction, 2025

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  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 272

Four CDV-Sized Tintypes of First Communion Children

Estimate: $100 - $200
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Charming group of four CDV-sized tintypes showing children dressed for their First Communion or Confirmation, likely of Catholic heritage. Three young girls wear white dresses with veils and floral crowns, posed formally with one gloved hand resting on an armrest. A fourth image features a young boy in a tailored suit adorned with a white ribbon and boutonniere, seated with a solemn expression.

Each portrait is housed in its original cardstock mount, three with oval window frames and one with an embossed arched mat. The images reflect the solemnity and ceremonial pride of late 19th-century religious rites of passage, likely taken in a studio setting. A well-preserved and visually cohesive grouping of faith-based vernacular portraiture.

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