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Lowe Railway Collage Mt. Lowe California Postcard Stamped. Black ink collage of various attractions at Mt. Lowe including railway, spotlight, and lift. Has correspondence on both sides. Stamped with dark green Franklin one-cent stamp and postmarked in 1901 multiple times at various stations on San Francisco. As far as I can see it’s in good shape. Has a crease running down right side, another near top on back, right side, and a couple on bottom. Wear on edges and corners. Some old prices in pencil, most erased except for top. Those are the only issues that I can see. Has history behind it. Good for collectors of postcards, stamps, or anything related to Mt. Postcard comes sleeved and either in top loaders or sandwiched between cardboard. If you have any questions or concerns please message me.

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San Francisco from Telegraph Hill, c. Gelatin silver print on Dassonville’s Charcoal Black paper. Estate stamp on verso; “316” annotated in graphite in the margin. Image size: 9 x 9 3/8 inches. Paper size: 10 ¾ x 12 3/8 inches. Mat size: 16 x 20 inches. The first image shown here is scanned and is most representative of the tonality of the print. William Dassonville was an American photographer who was born in 1879. William Dassonville has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Portland Museum of Art, Maine and the Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla. Born in Sacramento, California, in 1879 to middle-class parents, William Edward Dassonville and his family moved to San Francisco when he was a child. He joined San Francisco’s avant-garde Camera Club, attending their lectures, trips, and exhibitions as well as writing articles for Camera Craft, the club’s publication. In his twenties, he became acquainted with the city’s artists including William Keith, George Stirling, Maynard Dixon, and John Muir, whom he later photographed in the portrait studio he opened with Oscar Maurer in 1900. Although the studio was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, Dassonville managed to salvage some of his work. He supported himself by taking portraits but continued to make beautiful platinum prints of the California landscape in the pictorialist style. In the 1920s, he shifted his focus to San Francisco’s waterfront, skyline, and architecture. These impressionist images were printed on Dassonville’s own “Charcoal Black” paper. In response to the shortage of platinum printing paper with the onset of World War I, the photographer and self-taught chemist developed an alternative paper coating that had the tonal intricacy of platinum that was heralded by Ansel Adams, Imogene Cunningham, and many others. Although Dassonville won numerous prizes and awards and exhibited his pictorialist landscapes alongside the work of Alfred Stieglitz, Clarence H. White, Gertrude Kasebier, and other pioneering photographers during his life, he was a relatively unknown medical photographer at Stanford University at the time of his death in 1957. His reputation was rehabilitated when two California art dealers found a trove of Dassonville’s work in a pair of trunks several years ago. Like late nineteenth century paintings, Dassonville’s rich tonal photographs infuse both people and places with a haunting and ethereal quality while honoring photography’s place within the fine arts.

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VERY NICE NEW OLD STOCK CALIFORNIA STAMPED SAN FRANCISCO BAY TRAIL SIGN.. NEVER MOUNTED BUT GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC….. YOU WILL NOT FIND A SIGN THIS RARE AGAIN! This item is in the category “Collectibles\Transportation\Signs”. The seller is “ibuyandsell24-7″ and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Year: 2017
• Featured Refinements: Highway Sign
• Modified Item: No

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