September 2026 Photographic History Auction
Updated September 23, 2026
This auction ended on September 19, 2026.
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| Date | September 19, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT |
| Type | Online only |
| Auction house | Michael Lehr Antiques |
| Location | Rockaway, New Jersey, 07866 · more auctions in Rockaway |
| Lots | 543 |
| Estimates | $25 – $6,000 |
What's in this auction
543 lots, mostly antiques & furniture (98), firearms & militaria (54), vehicles & automotive (11), electronics & gaming (4). 543 lots have photos and 543 have full descriptions. Pre-sale estimates $25–$6,000 across 543 priced lots. Bidding is online through the auction house's catalog.
Highest-estimated lots
- Photo Albums, Kiowa Comanche Wichita Caddo, Southern Plains — est. $4,000–$6,000
- Quarter Plate Daguerreotype, Mother with Broom and Son Reading — est. $4,000–$6,000
- Quarter Plate Daguerreotype, "Kite Boy" by Swift — est. $4,000–$6,000
- Daguerreotype, Post Mortem "Ice Man" by Southworth & Hawes — est. $4,000–$6,000
- Half Plate Daguerreotype, Cropper House Hotel, Manchester, Ohio — est. $3,000–$5,000
From the auction house
Our September 2026 auction is anchored by two remarkable private collections that together showcase the richness and diversity of nineteenth-century American photography, alongside a broader selection of consignments spanning early photography, Civil War material, and vernacular imagery. The first is the collection of James Lee Soffer, assembled over decades with a discerning eye for rarity, historical significance, and visual impact. Spanning the earliest decades of photography through the Civil War era, the Soffer Collection is particularly strong in vernacular portraiture, Native American photographs, and Iowa Civil War imagery, offering collectors an exceptional opportunity to acquire fresh-to-market material. Complementing the Soffer Collection is an outstanding Palmer, Massachusetts collection, much of it discovered over years of searching the fields and dealers of Brimfield. Rich in maker-marked daguerreotypes, the collection reflects the golden age of the American daguerreian studio, with numerous identified photographers and finely executed portraits that will appeal to collectors of early photographic processes, regional makers, and occupational history. Together, these two collections make up about half of the sale and give the auction unusual depth across daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, CDVs, and cabinet cards, featuring both historically important subjects and compelling vernacular images that reward careful study. From documented Civil War photographs and Native American portraits to scarce maker-marked daguerreotypes and exceptional nineteenth-century studio work, this sale offers opportunities for seasoned collectors and new enthusiasts alike, with broad appeal across multiple collecting categories throughout the rest of the catalog as well. Collectors bidding directly through our platform receive free shipping on all photographic purchases greater than $500. Full catalog and bidding: view on liveauctioneers .
In this auction (543 lots)
Categories: Antiques & Furniture (98) · Firearms & Militaria (54) · Vehicles & Automotive (11) · Electronics & Gaming (4) · Sporting Goods & Outdoors (4) · Jewelry & Watches (2)
- Lot 0101 — Cabinet Card, Dr. Asa Conch, E. W. Bogardus, New York
- Lot 0102 — Cabinet Card, David Standing and John Buffalo, Eagle Butte SD
- Lot 0103 — Boudoir Card, Barbershop Interior, Rome, Idaho, 1919
- Lot 0104 — Cabinet Card, Talbot Bros Picture Frame Manufacturer, Albany NY
- Lot 0105 — Albumen Print, Man with Ox Cart, Omaha Nebraska, 1890-1891
- Lot 0106 — CDV, Girl with Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine, Dover NH
- Lot 0107 — CDV, Two Men in Staged Fight Pose, C. Kendig, Naperville
- Lot 0108 — Tintype, CDV, African American Man, Full-Length Portrait
- Lot 0109 — CDV, Young Woman, Richmond Photograph Co, Richmond VA
- Lot 0110 — CDV, Aurora Daily News, Happy New Year 1879, Pratt Artist
- Lot 0111 — Photograph, Amos 'n' Andy Signed, F.F. Gosden, C.J. Correll
- Lot 0112 — Cabinet Card, Rower in Racing Shell, Hearn, Portland ME
- Lot 0113 — Cabinet Card, Woman with Banjo, Hennigar Bros, Middletown CT
- Lot 0114 — Cabinet Card, Man Posed in Wicker Basket, Sutton
- Lot 0115 — Cabinet Card, Emma Lorderyon Simmons, Mrs. Bollom Millinery
- Lot 0116 — Cabinet Card, Blacksmith at the Anvil with Hammer and Horseshoe
- Lot 0117 — Cabinet Card, Four Jockeys with Champagne, C.F. Halm
- Lot 0118 — Cabinet Card, Bill Philips with Mop, Chicago, 1904
- Lot 0119 — Cabinet Card, Sherwin-Williams Painters, Eureka Kansas
- Lot 0120 — Cabinet Card, Three Texas Cowboys, Harbage, Brownwood Texas
- Lot 0121 — Cabinet Card, Two Surveyors with Transit, Sheboygan Wis
- Lot 0122 — CDVs, European Occupational and Ethnographic Studies, 4 Cards
- Lot 0123 — CDV, Three Painters and Wallpaper Hangers, Orla Bock, Halmstad
- Lot 0124 — CDVs and Tintypes, Album Collection of 63, Mixed Subjects
- Lot 0125 — Cabinet Card, Man with Extraordinary Hair, Wesner, Los Angeles
- Lot 0126 — CDV, Albino Twin Boys, C D Fredricks & Co, New York
- Lot 0127 — Cabinet Card, Circassian Woman in Elaborate Costume, Theatrical Portrait
- Lot 0128 — CDV, Söstrene Edding, Seated Circassian Woman in Theatrical Costume
- Lot 0129 — Cabinet Card, F. M. Wills and Harry Barfoot in Kit
- Lot 0130 — CDV, Che-Mah "The Chinese Dwarf," Eisenmann
- Lot 0131 — CDVs, Circus Sideshow Performers, Admiral Dot, Gen Grant Jr
- Lot 0132 — CDV, Circus or Stage Performer, Spedden, Baltimore
- Lot 0133 — Cabinet Card, Col. Barts, Giant with Woman and Small Man
- Lot 0134 — Cabinet Card, Chief Debro and Sarah Debro, Bradford, Ind
- Lot 0135 — CDV, Zanne and Zanobia, Bicycle Performers, Eisenmann
- Lot 0136 — CDV, Moung San Win, Manayunk Philadelphia
- Lot 0137 — Cabinet Card, Hunter with Rifle, Fish, and Hound, Butte Montana
- Lot 0138 — Tintype, Two Native American Women, CDV Format
- Lot 0139 — Photo Albums, Kiowa Comanche Wichita Caddo, Southern Plains
- Lot 0140 — Cabinet Card, Jim Joshua and Niece Grace Redelk
- Lot 0141 — Cabinet Card, Blue Horse, Chief of the Shoshone, Elliott & Fry
- Lot 0142 — Cabinet Card, Iron Thunder, by D. F. Barry, West Superior
- Lot 0143 — Cabinet Card, Crow Eagle, Barry, Bismarck and Standing Rock
- Lot 0144 — Cabinet Card, Native American Youth, J.B. Kingham, Oklahoma City
- Lot 0145 — Cabinet Card, Sitting Bull, by D. F. Barry, West Superior
- Lot 0146 — Cabinet Card, Sitting Bull, Taton Kaiyotonka, Bailey Dix & Mead
- Lot 0147 — Cabinet Card, Rain in the Face, D.F. Barry, Bismarck
- Lot 0148 — Cabinet Card, Poor Dog, Cheyenne Medicine Man, Buffalo Bill
- Lot 0149 — Cabinet Card, Slow White Buffalo, Crow Eagle, Iron Thunder, Fool Thunder
- Lot 0150 — Cabinet Card, Fool Thunder, by D. F. Barry, Bismarck
- Lot 0151 — Cabinet Card, Slow White Buffalo, D.F. Barry, Bismarck DT
- Lot 0152 — Cabinet Card, Chief Gall and Nephew, D.F. Barry, West Superior
- Lot 0153 — Cabinet Card, Wife of Gaul, D.F. Barry, Bismarck DT
- Lot 0154 — Cabinet Card, Sierra Blanco Bucks, by D. A. Markey
- Lot 0155 — Cabinet Card, Chief Gall, D.F. Barry, West Superior Wis
- Lot 0156 — Cabinet Card, Apache Warrior, by D. A. Markey
- Lot 0157 — Cabinet Card, Old Crow on Horseback, D.F. Barry, Bismarck
- Lot 0158 — Cabinet Card, Native American "Old Crow," D.F. Barry, West Superior
- Lot 0159 — Cabinet Card, Blue Horse, Chief of the Shoshone, Buffalo Bill
- Lot 0160 — Cabinet Card, Good Eagle, Chief of the Cheyenne, Wild West
- Lot 0161 — Cabinet Card, Ames Hayes, Native American Youth, Lewiston
- Lot 0162 — Cabinet Card, Native American Nez Perce Youth, Elite Studio, Grangeville ID
- Lot 0163 — Cabinet Card, James Joshua and Wife, Umatilla, Athena OR
- Lot 0164 — Cabinet Card, Stella "Shillal" Two Slap, Native American Nez Perce Woman
- Lot 0165 — Cabinet Card, Ellen Compo, Nez Perce woman E.G. Cummings, Lewiston Idaho
- Lot 0166 — Cabinet Card, Nez Perce Black Eagle by Bowman, Pendleton Oregon
- Lot 0167 — Cabinet Card, Mary and Annie Gates, F. B. Fiske
- Lot 0168 — Cabinet Card, Arapaho Agency Police, C.C. Stotz, Fort Reno
- Lot 0169 — Cabinet Card, Osage Family Group, S.A. Shepard, Pawhuska
- Lot 0170 — Cabinet Card, Sioux Chiefs with Maj. Hatton, Carlisle School
- Lot 0171 — CDV, Paiute Youth, C.W. Carter, Salt Lake City
- Lot 0172 — CDV, Kiowa Chiefs Including White Bear, Goehner Denver
- Lot 0173 — CDV, Two Native Americans in Ceremonial Dress, Bowers, Lynn
- Lot 0174 — Cabinet Card, Native American Family Group, Chas. Latham
- Lot 0175 — CDV, John D. Bemo, Tal-A-Mas-Mico, Muskogee
- Lot 0176 — CDV, Native American Family Group, A.W. Barker, Ottawa KS
- Lot 0177 — Cabinet Card, Chief Washakie, Shoshone, Baker & Johnston
- Lot 0178 — Cabinet Card, Chief Washakie, Shoshone, by Houghton
- Lot 0179 — Cabinet Card, Chief Ouray, W. H. Jackson, Denver Colorado
- Lot 0180 — Cabinet Card, Billie Mottie, Native American Girl, D.A. Markey
- Lot 0181 — Cabinet Card, Bulls Ghost, Fort Sully, Dakota, 1870
- Lot 0182 — Cabinet Card, Bears Rib, Hunkpapa Lakota, Fort Sully, 1870
- Lot 0183 — Cabinet Card, Thunder Hawk, Hunkpapa Lakota, Fort Sully, 1870
- Lot 0184 — Cabinet Card, Two Bears, Standing Rock Agency, 1878
- Lot 0185 — Cabinet Card, Big Head, Upper Yanktonais Sioux
- Lot 0186 — Cabinet Card, Sitting Crow, Blackfoot Sioux, Fort Sully Dakota
- Lot 0187 — Cabinet Card, Running Antelope, by Alexander Gardner
- Lot 0188 — Large Albumen Print, Band of Osage Indians, W.S. Prettyman
- Lot 0189 — Large-Format Albumen Print, Three Native American Men Seated
- Lot 0190 — Very Large Photograph, Iron Tail, Heyn Photo, Omaha Nebraska, 1900
- Lot 0191 — Cabinet Card, Two Native American Men in Full Regalia
- Lot 0192 — RPPC, Flathead and Kootenay Chiefs Group Portrait, Tipi
- Lot 0193 — Real Photo Postcard, X. Deutsches Bundes Sängerfest Parade
- Lot 0194 — Postcards, Native American Leaders, Geronimo, Sitting Bull, 16
- Lot 0195 — Albumen Prints, Observatory Peak and Montgomery St, Taber
- Lot 0196 — Albumen Prints, San Francisco Market St and Palace Hotel, Taber
- Lot 0197 — Albumen Prints, US Mint and Cable Street-Cars, San Francisco
- Lot 0198 — Albumen Prints, Taber Photos, Wawona Tree, Mariposa Grove, San Francisco
- Lot 0199 — Albumen Prints, Taber Album Page, Ferry Oakland Slip and Fort Point Surf
- Lot 0200 — Albumen Prints, Gov. Stanford's Residence, SF, Taber
- Lot 0201 — Albumen Prints, Yosemite Valley, Taber Photo San Francisco
- Lot 0202 — Albumen Prints, Taber, Market Street and Golden Gate Park, SF
- Lot 0203 — Albumen Prints, San Francisco Bay and Oakland SP Depot, Taber
- Lot 0204 — Albumen Prints, Hotel del Monte, Monterey, Taber, San Francisco
- Lot 0205 — Albumen Prints, Market St and California St, San Francisco, Taber
- Lot 0206 — Albumen Prints, Taber, Colton and Crocker Mansions, SF
- Lot 0207 — Ninth Plate Ruby Ambrotype, Civil War Musician with Bugle
- Lot 0208 — Ninth Plate Ambrotype, Civil War Union Musician with Bugle
- Lot 0209 — Sixth Plate Tintype, Union Soldier, US Belt Plate, Patriotic Mat
- Lot 0210 — Sixth Plate Ambrotype, Civil War Soldier, West Point Cadet
- Lot 0211 — Sixth Plate Tintype, Civil War Soldier, Painted Camp Backdrop
- Lot 0212 — CDV, Washington and Lincoln, The Father and The Preserver
- Lot 0213 — CDV, Horace Greeley, Journalist and Presidential Candidate
- Lot 0214 — CDV, Eugene W. Hall, Boy Drummer, Miller & Rowell, Boston
- Lot 0215 — CDV, John B. Krepps, 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery
- Lot 0216 — CDV, George W. Utt, 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery
- Lot 0217 — CDV, Reese J Millard, 2nd PA Heavy Artillery, POW
- Lot 0218 — CDV, Capt Charles Nassau Cadwallader, 2nd PA Hvy Arty
- Lot 0219 — CDV, General Winfield Scott, E. Anthony, Brady's Gallery
- Lot 0220 — CDV, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler, Brady's National Portrait Gallery
- Lot 0221 — CDV, General Joseph Hooker, by Brady, New York
- Lot 0222 — CDV, Civil War Union Soldier, Trefoil Corps Badge on Hat
- Lot 0223 — CDV, Civil War Soldier, Wolff's Gallery, Alexandria, VA
- Lot 0224 — CDV, Union Officer, I G Owen, Newton NJ
- Lot 0225 — CDV, Gen. Quincy Adams Gillmore, Brady's National Portrait Gallery
- Lot 0226 — CDV, General John G. Foster, Brady's National Portrait Gallery
- Lot 0227 — CDV, Gen. Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Brady's Gallery
- Lot 0228 — CDV, Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, Brady's National Portrait Gallery
- Lot 0229 — CDV, General John Ellis Wool, Brady's National Portrait Gallery
- Lot 0230 — CDV, Unidentified Union Artillery Officer with Sword
- Lot 0231 — CDV, Officer, 28th NY Militia, Schutze, Brooklyn
- Lot 0232 — CDV, Civil War Soldier, Owego, New York
- Lot 0233 — CDV, Union Officer, J. Gurney & Son, New York
- Lot 0234 — CDV, Gen. George B. McClellan, Brady, E. Anthony
- Lot 0235 — CDV, Brevet Brigadier General, Iowa Civil War Officer
- Lot 0236 — CDV, Brig. Gen. Alfred Sully, Union Army, Northwest Campaigns
- Lot 0237 — CDV, Dr. Bandwell, 6th Iowa Cavalry
- Lot 0238 — CDV, Iowa Civil War Soldier in Officer's Uniform
- Lot 0239 — CDV, Civil War Union Officer H. D. McMaster, Iowa
- Lot 0240 — CDV, Capt. T.W. Burdick, Co. D, Iowa Civil War Officer
- Lot 0241 — CDV, Captain McClure, Iowa Civil War Officer, Brady's
- Lot 0242 — CDV, 1st Lt Timothy Finn, Co D, Iowa Civil War Officer
- Lot 0243 — CDV, Capt. J. Mo. Gates, Iowa Civil War Soldier
- Lot 0244 — CDV, Lt Suete, 6th Iowa Cavalry, Civil War Officer
- Lot 0245 — CDV, Iowa Civil War Soldier, Unidentified Young Man
- Lot 0246 — CDV, Iowa Civil War Soldier, Geo Wood, A 60
- Lot 0247 — CDV, Corporal J. A. Lightz, Iowa Civil War Soldier
- Lot 0248 — CDV, George Simins, Iowa Civil War Soldier
- Lot 0249 — CDV, Iowa Civil War Soldier, Unidentified Photographer
- Lot 0250 — CDV, Sherwin, Iowa Civil War Soldier, 1867
- … and 393 more lots
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