CranfordRare — A Private Gallery of 19th-Century Photography, Antiquarian Books & Graded Cards
A practice of Matt CranfordMacrafly MMI · Cranford Rare MMXI
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Cranford Rare is, first, a scholarly archive — a working repository of printed, written, and visual artifacts catalogued with the care of a finding aid. The objects we hold also pass, occasionally and discreetly, into private hands.
From the Archive
Four series- II.
Yellowstone Stereoviews
Solomon D. Butcher · 1904 – 1909 · 13 pcsReal photo postcard stereoviews — a reconstructed itinerary of the 1909 Butcher circuit through the park.
- IIII.
Among the Sky-Scrapers
C. E. Yocam · c. 1908 – 1912 · 4 pcsReal photo postcards from a small-town Nebraska studio — a quiet joke about what counts as a sky-scraper on the prairie.
- IIIIII.
Early Omaha
Various photographers · 1860s – early 1900sStereoviews and early prints of the river city — pinned to a living 1868 bird's-eye and 1887 plat atlas of downtown Omaha.
- IVIV.
Nebraska Native Man
Various photographers · 1860s – early 1900s · 11 pcsPortraits and reservation views from Nebraska and the Northern Plains — pinned to an 1886 Burlington Route map of the state.
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Available for Acquisition
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