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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 259

Four CDV-Sized Tintypes of Uniformed Nurses

Estimate: $200 - $300
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$100

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Group of four CDV-sized tintypes featuring women posed in classic studio settings, each wearing a dark dress with a prominent white apron and cap, clearly identified as nurses or domestic caregivers, likely from the late 19th century. Their uniforms, demeanor, and the neutral studio backdrops suggest a professional context, perhaps related to medical service or institutional employment such as hospitals, asylums, or convalescent homes.

Each sitter is posed standing beside a different prop, table or chair, lending individual distinction while emphasizing the consistency of their attire. The tintypes vary in tone, with some showing slight reddish hues common in mid-period ferrotypes, and two featuring identical subjects in slightly different poses. A compelling vernacular grouping with possible ties to early medical or social care settings.

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