Potter and Potter Auctions: Glimpses: Vintage, Fine, and Vernacular Photography, 23627, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 23, 2026 - July 23, 2026
Page Size: 378 items in 16 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 Baker's Art Gallery; Donahue F; Hansen Chr

Three Cabinet Card Portraits of Women

Columbus, OH; Hornellsville, NY; Odense, Denmark Circa late 19th century USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
52

Group of 29 theatrical cabinet card portraits

late 19th century USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
53

Three Cabinet Cards of Men with Bicycles

Circa 1880s USD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
54

34 Partially Cased Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes or Tintypes

Late 19th century / Early 20th Century USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
55 Callahan; Thompson; Weston

Indian Ceremony at the Southern California Auto Club

1935 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
56 Irwin

Portrait of Geronimo

Chickasha, Ind. Ter. circa 1901–05 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
57 Cummings Janet M

Thomas A. Edison in His Home

New York Circa World War I USD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
58 Jackson W.H.

Panoramic view of Denver

Denver, CO Circa late 19th century USD 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
59

Pair of American Flag and Cross Tableaux with Costumed Figures

Circa 1920s–1930s USD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
60

Antique album of family snapshots and cyanotypes

ca. late 19th century USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
61

N Books, including: Native American & Western Americana Photograph Group

Chicago 1920s–40s; 1946 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
62

Eleven Architectural Related Photographs

19th / 20th Century USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
63

17 Exotic / Travel Photographs

19th / 20th Century USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
64

25 Workplace / Industrial Related Photographs

19th / 20th Century USD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
65 Raynor Dorka

18 Interior / Advertising / Signage Photographs

Paris 19th / 20th Century USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
66

Large Group of Unusual / Eccentric Photographic Subjects

19th / 20th Century USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
67

Photographs of Single or Paired Individuals

19th/20th Century USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
68

Twenty Photographs of Groups of People

19th / 20th Century USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
69

Assortment of stereoview cards

N/A USD 125.00 - 175.00 Unknown
70

Eleven class photos of schoolchildren

Circa late 19th / early 20th century USD 50.00 - 150.00 Unknown
71

Group of 18 stereoview photographs

late 19th / early 20th century USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
72

Over 40 assorted vintage and antique photographs

early to mid-20th century USD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
73

Nine photographs of men in uniform

early to mid-20th century USD 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
74

Thirteen photographs of Michigan train stations and buildings

1910s USD 80.00 - 150.00 Unknown
75 Huffman L.A. (1854-1931)

Six photographs of ranchers and cattle

Miles City, Mont 1910s USD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
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    14-15 July
    Sotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.
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    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
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    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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