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
176

African American Soldiers Real Photo Postcard Group

1920s-1940s USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
177 Adams Harry (1918-1988)

Archive of Los Angeles Civil Rights and NAACP Photographs

Los Angeles 1962-1963 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
178

Martin Luther King Jr. in Berlin

Seattle 1964 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
179

African Studio Portrait Photograph Group

1980s USD 150.00 - 300.00 Unknown
180

Black Power Images

Early 70s USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
181

African American Portrait Photographs with Painted Backdrops

Late 20th century USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
182

African American Photography Collection

1960s-90s USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
183

Snapshot Photographs of Young Snoop Dog

Early 1990s USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
184 Ralph D.

Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls Original Photographic Postcards

1991-1994 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
185 Ralph D.

Kobe Bryant Fila Summer League Photograph

1997 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
186

Collection of African American Snapshot Photography

Early to mid-20th century USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
187

Six African American Related Photographs

Late 19th / Early 20th Century USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
188

Two Photo Collages

1960s USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
189

Collection of African American Glamour Portraits & Social Snapshots

Late 1990s–Early 2000s USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
190

U.S. Funk Band in Japan Snapshot Archive

1979 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Unknown
191

Group of Women in Costume Holding Masks

c. 1910-1920s USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
192

Group of Liberia PRC Military Photographs

Monrovia, Liberia 1981 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
193

Group of Vernacular Studio Portrait Photographs

1990s USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
194

Women’s Vernacular Photobooth Portrait Archive

1930s–1970s USD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
195

Pair of Sideshow “Half Man / Half Woman” Banner Display Snapshots

1930–40s USD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
196 Muench Josef (1904–1998)

4 Books, including: Native American Subjects and Southwestern Scenes

circa 1950s USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
197

Three Philippine Photo Albums

1940s–60s USD 300.00 - 600.00 Unknown
198 Todd Studios

Bronze Nude Figure with Headdress

St. Louis Mid 20th Century USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
199

Group of Four Snapshot Photographs of Mummified Figures

Early 20th Century USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
200

Group of Three Snapshot Photographs of Jack Johnson

Early 20th Century USD 300.00 - 600.00 Unknown
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    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.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    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
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    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
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000