All Photographica

Case Histories (Victorian Photographic Portrait) by: John Hannavy Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. The cased photographic portrait was fashionable from the early 1840s until the end of the 1860s. Around it grew a considerable industry supplying everything from simple leather covered cases, to sophisticated creations in moulded thermoplastic. This book looks at the photographic portrait from daguerrotype to carte de visite, and at the range of cases in which it was marketed. The cased Victorian photographic portrait was a sophisticated product, with the delicate hand-colouring of the image echoed in the colours of the protective velvet pad and trim with which the case was finished. Hitherto, the relationship between the portrait and its packaging and presentation has not been explored in book form. Case Histories also highlights British manufacturers of cases and trims, and identifies the only British manufacturer yet found who made moulded thermoplastic cases. Such was the importance of the cased photographic portrait, that moulded picture cases were one of the worlds first uses for moulded plastic. A history of the packaging and presentation of the Victorian cased photographic portrait The first book to take a holistic view of the cased portraiture market Looks at the structure of the case and its evolution Explores the range of material used in case manufacture, the manufacturing techniques employed and the emergence of moulding technology
Circa: 2005
 

Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases & Wall Frames Second Edition by: Paul K. Berg Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. Table of Contents: - This is the most up to date, comprehensive reference text and illustrated catalog on the subject. "Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases" contains more than 2000 cases illustrated in full size with hundreds more illustrations of related material. The majority of these detailed photos are black and white, but there is an 8-page center section in full color. For readers who are interested in case value, there is a price guide as well as a rarity rating system for every case. This book has been made user friendly for the beginning collector without sacrificing any detail for the advanced collector or dealer. There is an informative historical section, that provides the reader with important information regarding the individuals and companies who developed this American industry and art form.
Circa: 2003
 

The Way They Were: Dressed in 1860-1865 (CDV Portrait Photos - Clothing Fashions & Styles) by: Donna Abraham Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. This amazing collection of nearly 600 cartes de visite is a superb photographic reference and companion to other documents already written about the 1860-1865 time period. Each carte de visite reveals a multitude of details. Every time this book is opened, it will be an adventure. Ladies' dress fabric prints, plaids, stripes and trims Ladies' outerwear, hats, shawls and accessories Ladies special attire -- mourning, bridal and ball gowns Children's hats ,dresses, suits and accessories Men's hats, coats, vests, trousers and accessories This book is a treasure trove of information ... a "must have" for every costume designer and living historian .. rich in suggestions for the student
Circa: 2008
 

The Way They Were: Dressed in 1860-1865: A Photographic Reference, Vol 2 by: Donna J. Abraham Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. This volume takes you on a visual journey through hundreds of never before published carte de viste photographs accompanied by authoritative text. This book is a unique record of magnified black and white images showcasing what "real" people wore in this hugely popular time period. Whether you are a costume designer or historian looking for inspiration or simply a fan wishing to gaze upon the beautiful clothing details, this spectacular book has it all The Way They Were: Dressed In 1860-1865, volume 2 is the definitive study of clothing details and accessories for women, children and men who lived in 1860-1865 America.
Circa: 2011
 

Encyclopedia of Silhouette Collectibles by: Shirley Mace Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. Table of Contents: - Includes 1996-1997 laid in price guide. This is the most current price guide for this book. Silhouette pictures as defined in this book are the colored pictures that are painted on the back side of the glass. This is also known as reverse painting on glass. They are usually black, but white, red, blue, rose or a combination of colors is also used. The subjects include children, couples, birds, dogs, horses, etc. Silhouettes have been used to decorate dishes, canisters, lamps, and many other items. The backgrounds were usually paper or foil; sometimes textured, tinted or with scenic depictions. The backing behind this background is usually grey or black cardboard. The hangers are sometimes attached directly to the glass; some may be a metal hanger that is attached to the back of the cardboard; some have a cut in the cardboard (meant to be folded out), with a hole for hanging. Silhouettes were sold in variety stores, dime stores, novelty stores, or given as promotional gifts from the 1920's through the early 1950's.
Circa: 1992
 

American Victorian Costume in Early Photographs by: Priscilla Harris Dalrymple Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. Over 280 rare photographs document the clothing of ordinary men, women and children from the 1840s through the 1890s, in what appears to be their Sunday best. Bustles, hoops, pantalets, shirtwaists, top hats, waistcoats, bowlers, other Victorian-era attire, as well as hairdressing and tonsorial styles. Indispensable for any student of costume, fashion, early photography. Introduction. Introduction to fashions of each decade. Captions.
Circa: 1991
 

Images of America: Aubuchon Hardware by: Bernard Aubuchon Jr. Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. William E. Aubuchon Sr. immigrated to the United States from Canada in 1900 at the age of 15, speaking no English and armed with only a fifth-grade education. Through hard work and perseverance, he established a hardware store in 1908 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. One hundred years later, there are over 130 Aubuchon Hardware stores located throughout Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont, employing about 1,100 people. This remarkable growth by Aubuchon Hardware can be attributed to the company treating its customers as friends and always making them number one. As William E. Aubuchon Sr. once said, The business was founded on the principle of buying economically. We give our customers what they want: high-grade hardware at a price everyone can afford. Aubuchon Hardware never lost track of where it started, and today it still remains all in the family with over 20 family members currently employed, including the fourth generation. In Aubuchon Hardware, family members were an invaluable resource for photographs and historical information.
Circa: 2008
Manufacturer: Arcadia Publishing  

America and the Tintype by: Steven Kasher Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. One of the most intriguing and little studied forms of nineteenth-century photography is the tintype. Introduced in 1856 as a low-cost alternative to the daguerreotype and the albumen print, the tintype was widely marketed from the 1860s through the first decades of the twentieth century as the most popular photographic medium. The picture-making preference of the people, it was almost never used for celebrity portraiture: It was affordable, portable, unique and available almost everywhere. Because of its ubiquity, the tintype provides a startlingly candid record of the political upheavals that rocked the four decades following the American Civil War-and the personal anxieties they induced. As this book's author, Steven Kasher, argues, the tintype studio became a kind of performance space in which sitters could act out their personal identities. Sitters brought to the tintype studio not just their family and friends but also the tools of their trade, costumes, toys, stuffed animals and other such props. Often they would enact stereotypes and fantasies that reflected or challenged conventional gender, race and class roles. Surprisingly, the tintype was almost exclusively an American phenomenon, rarely used in other countries, and this book demonstrates how this modest form of photography provides extraordinary insight into the development of national attitudes and characteristics in the formative years of the early Modern era. Featured in this book are more than 200 remarkable examples of tintypes, mostly drawn from the Permanent Collection of the International Center of Photography in New York.
Circa: 2008
 

Military Photographs & How to Date Them by: Neil Storey Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. Collector Bookstore Notes: Offers advice on identifying military uniforms, badges, insignia, ranks, medals and equipment worn by military ancestors. (British/ U.K.) Publishers Description: The military photographs in family albums stand out as different and distinctive and the sight of an ancestor in uniform stirs thoughts of what he or she did and where they served. However, because of the distance of time or the reticence of many old soldiers, the family historian can be left with many frustrating puzzles to solve when faced with an unlabelled photograph. But there are always clues and author Neil Storey offers advice on identifying military uniforms, badges, insignia, ranks, medals and the equipment worn by our military ancestors. These items can provide a wealth of information about the person or people in the photograph and can lead to many new avenues of research. This book covers the UK's military history from the 1870s to the 1940s with chapters on Soldiers of the Queen, The Edwardian soldier, the First World War, the Inter War years and the Second World War. Each chapter has an introduction followed by a wide range of photographs showing a good cross-section from all the services, corps and line infantry with helpful sections about how to interpret the clues revealed by uniform details. The book is profusely illustrated with over 230 photographs and offers a brilliant guide to dating our precious family heirlooms.
Circa: 2009
Manufacturer: Countryside Books  

The Last Muster: Images of the Revolutionary War Generation by: Maureen Taylor Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. A remarkable work of documentary history, The Last Muster is a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographic images--primarily daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and carte des visite paper photographs--of the Revolutionary War generation. This extraordinary collection of images assigns faces to an un-illustrated war and tells the stories of our nation's founding fathers and mothers; updating and supplementing research last collected and published over a century ago. In her comprehensive introduction, author Maureen Taylor explains how she came to this project and collected the images. She also describes her exhaustive primary source research involved in dating and identifying each image and investigating the story and genealogy of each subject. The array of seventy images is expansive and includes veterans, loyalists, Native Americans, African Americans, children who witnessed battles and and soldiers, and women who nursed the wounded and even took up arms themselves. Although the faces that gaze at the reader are old and wizened, the stories they tell are of youthful bravery in the young days of the republic. The Last Muster is a much-needed contribution to the history of the American Revolution, the early Republic, and the history of Photography. Through these portraits and the accompanying narrative, readers will have the opportunity to relive the Revolutionary War.
Circa: 2010
 

Leica Camera Repair Handbook by: Thomas Tomosy Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. Table of Contents: - - With great detail this book outlines all of the techniques needed to repair and restore Leica cameras, lenses, and accessories including light meters, winders/motors, viewfinders, and flash units. Each model of equipment is discussed individually with step-by-step illustrated instructions. Readers will not only learn how to disassemble and repair equipment, but also how to troubleshoot and make cosmetic restorations. A glossary of technical terms and an abstract containing the fundamentals of camera repair are included.
Circa: 1999
Manufacturer: Ingram  

Selecting & Using Classic Cameras by: Michael Levy Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. Table of Contents: - - - - Discover the charms and challenges of selecting and using classic cameras. Features: SLRs Folding cameras Press and view cameras TLRs Polaroids Rangefinders Subminiature cameras Includes: All major makes - Nikon, Leica, Rollei and many more Exposure techniques for cameras with "dead" meters Evaluating lens and camera features and condition Common problems with classics Film formats and selection Where to buy and sell classics Accessories for classic cameras
Circa: 2002
 

Leica Instructions for Leica Camera Models M1, 2, 3 & 4 by: Ernst Leitz Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. This is a reprint of the series of Leica Instruction Books as issued by E. Leitz from Wetzlar. It is applicable to all English Language markets. This title includes models MP, MD & MDA, Motor drives for M2 & 4, as well as Leicameters MC, MR & MR4.
Manufacturer: Hove Books  

Canon Rangefinder Cameras 1933-68 by: Peter Dechert Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. Table of Contents: - A complete history of the Canon Rangefinder cameras. Every model is described, as well as their lenses, variations, numbers, etc.
Circa: 1985
 

Exakta Cameras by: Clement Aguila, Michel Rouah Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. The complete story of the pioneering SLR roll-film cameras and the world's first successful 35mm SLR. Describes all models. Chapters on lenses and accessories; star rating system for rarity.
Circa: 1987
Manufacturer: Hove Books