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Collection of Portraits, Landscapes and Photographic Holiday Cards In Different Photograph Formats Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Various Photographers Date: Various dates Description: Collection includes: Sarony [and] Mora [and] Gurney. New York, NY. Theatrical Portraits. Collection of 5 CDV photographs. 4 cream color card mounts and 1 black card mount, all with rounded corners. Collection includes: Mora, Jose Maria. Two portraits of well dressed women with stylish hats. Gurney & Son. Two portraits of well dressed women with adorning fancy hair styles. Sarony. Portrait of a young woman with adorned and stylish hair. Bond?. Des Moines, IA. Child Post Mortem. Child post mortem, cream colored mount, rounded corners, 4⅛x2½". Verso of card reads: "Willie S. Pritchard. Born November 18, 1869. Died June 12, 1870. Age 6 months + 25 days. Photographed by Bond?. Monday June 13, 1870. after little Willie had 'strayed away'." E. Map. Halle, Germany. Two Portraits of German Women Posing With Large Basket and Tub. Cream colored mounts, rounded corners, photographer advertising on card verso. 4x2½". Each woman standing in front of an elaborate posing backdrop, right hand resting on a rail, scarf wrapped head, full apron with large wicker basket and tub in back. Wilson, George Washington. Aberdeen, Scotland. Collection of 8 views, cream colored mounts, rounded corners, photographer advertising on card verso. 2½x4⅛". Views include: Dryburgh Abbey - Tomb of Sir Walter Scott No. 104A. Abbotsford - The Library, No. 574. Dunkeld Cathedral, No. 168. The Prentice Pillar, Roslin, No. 362. Hermitage and Bridge, Dunkeld, No. 170. Falls at Rumbling Bridge, Dunkeld, No. 467. Interior of Dunkeld Cathedral, No. 783. Dunkeld, From Birnam Hill, No. 780. Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. London, UK. Photographs are from the collection of The Royal Photographic Society. Glossy card stock, photograph on the outside, description of the photograph and holiday greeting inside. 6¾x4¾". Includes mailing envelope. Jose Maria Mora (1849-1926) was a Cuban refugee who studied painting in England. When the Cuban Revolution forced family to emigrate to the United States, he joined them in New York City. He quickly found employment at Napoleon Sarony’s photography studio, which at the time was the most artistic and well-regarded studio in the city. In 1870 Mora opened his own studio. He hired Sarony’s background painter, Lafayette Seavey who soon created the largest collection of hand-painted backgrounds in the world at that time, over 150 different ones ranging from snowy city streets to Moorish ruins to forests. Mora became the photographer of choice for the constant fancy-dress balls, tableaux, and other events of this era. In 1893, abruptly and without explanation, Mora closed his studio at 707 Broadway. For about 30 years, nothing was heard from or about Mora. In 1926, a New York Times article painted a bleak picture of his life as a recluse in the Hotel Breslin that year he was declared incompetent and died at St. Vincent’s Hospital, leaving nearly $200,000 untouched in his accounts. Jeremiah Gurney (1812-1886) did not concern himself with stage personalities until his partnership with son Benjamin Gurney (1833-1899) from 1860-1874. One of the founders of the photographic profession in the United States, Jeremiah Gurney pioneered most of the practices of studio organization, advertising, and finance. He learned to create daguerreotypes from Samuel F.B. Morse, invented the exhibition gallery, and experimented with the creation of paper prints, holding the patent for a version of the Talbot process dubbed the Chrystalotype. He acquiesced to the fashion for small carte de visites promoted by his onetime partner, C.D. Fredericks, and his rival Abraham Bogardus Gurney expanded his portraits to include performers, opera singers, ballet dancers and tragedians shot in intensely clear focus in settled poses. In 1860, the year Gurney and Son was formed