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The lifetime collection of author and photo historian, Jim Crain (1939-2025). The catalog is exclusively devoted to antique photography with an emphasis on the Old West, California, Texas, and Native Americana from 1840-1900.
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Lot 522

[ARKANSAS] (20) Photographs of Arkansas by (10) Photographers

Estimate: $150 - $300
Starting Bid
$50

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A collection of 20 early photographs featuring different cities and landmarks in Arkansas, ca. 1880-1900. Included are 13 stereoviews, four cabinet cards, one quarter-plate tintype, one trimmed cabinet card and one CDV, all taken by at least 10 different photographers. 

 

Included in this lot are the following images, in order of the lot's photos: 

 

1. No. 379. Eureka Tank and Basin. Stereoview. Eureka Springs, Arkansas: F.F. Fyler. Imprint to mount verso. Period ink inscription to mount verso. 

 

2. Eureka Springs, Ark. No 12. Stereoview. Series, "On the Line of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway, and Fisher's Stage Line." Fayetteville, Arkansas: J.W. Hansard. Imprint to mount verso. 

 

3. Untitled image of people in a town square. Stereoview. Fayetteville, Arkansas: J.W. Hansard. Imprint to mount verso. 

 

4. Crescent Steps. Stereoview. Eureka Springs, Arkansas: D. Callahan. Imprint to mount recto. Period ink inscription to mount recto. 

 

5. Perry & Miller Blocks. Stereoview. Eureka Springs, Arkansas: D. Callahan. Imprint to mount recto. Period ink inscription to mount recto. 

 

6. Unidentified view of a horse-drawn carriage. Stereoview. Series, "Views of Hot Springs, Arkansas." Hot Springs, Arkansas: C.W. Calohan & Bro. Imprint to mount verso. Period pencil inscription to mount verso. 

 

7. 12. View on Central Ave. Stereoview. Series, "Views of Hot Springs, Arkansas." Hot Springs, Arkansas: C.W. Calohan & Bro. Title stamped to mount recto. Imprint to mount verso. Period pencil inscription to mount verso. 

 

8. Unidentified view of town from above. Stereoview. Series, "Clary's Stereoscopic Views." Hot Springs, Arkansas: Clary. Imprint to mount verso. 

 

9. Unidentified view of train tracks. Stereoview. Series, "Clary's Stereoscopic Views." Hot Springs, Arkansas: Clary. Imprint to mount verso. 

 

10. Unidentified view of a man leading two burros. Stereoview. Series, "Clary's Stereoscopic Views." Hot Springs, Arkansas: Clary. Imprint to mount verso. 

 

11. Pay Car / Taken from the South of Depot. / August 16- /81." Stereoview. Rogers, Arkansas: Arkansas Art Company. Imprint to mount verso. Period ink inscription to mount verso. 

 

12. Blackenship Block. Stereoview. Eureka Springs, Arkansas: F.F. Fyler. Imprint to mount verso. Period ink inscription to mount verso. 

 

13. No. 411. Post Office. Stereoview. Eureka Springs, Arkansas: F.F. Fyler. Imprint to mount verso. Period ink inscription to mount verso. 

 

14. View of the Army-Navy Hospital. Cabinet card. Hot Springs, Arkansas: Pierson. Imprint to mount recto. 

 

15. Unidentified view of buildings on a cliffside. Cabinet card. Series, "Gems of the Ozark." Eureka Springs, Arkansas: Booth. Imprint to mount recto. Advertisements printed to mount verso. 

 

16. City from South Mt. Cabinet card. Series, "Gems of the Ozark." Eureka Springs, Arkansas: Booth. Imprint to mount recto. Advertisements print to mount verso. Period ink inscriptions to mount recto and verso. 

 

17. View of a wagon shop. Cabinet card. Morrillton, Arkansas: G.H. Kesler. Imprint to mount recto. 

 

18. Quarter plate outdoor group tintype. 

 

19. The Narrows at Beaver, Ark. Trimmed cabinet card. Eureka Springs, Arkansas: n.p. Period ink inscriptions to mount recto and verso. 

 

20. Half-length studio portrait albumen CDV. Little Rock, Arkansas: Dawson. Imprint to mount recto and verso. 

 

[Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Cased Images, Union Cases, Albumen Photographs, CDVs, Carte de Visites, Cartes de Visite, Carte-de-visite, Cartes-de-visite, CDV, Cabinet Cards, Stereoviews, Stereocards, Stereographs] [Western Americana, Western History, Western Expansion, Wild West]

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Jim Crain Collection.