Saturday, October 13, 2007

Picture Frame from The Gilded Age

The Evermore Gallery of American Art's antique scouts have come up with a major league player of the first order. This "gilded age", 50 lb+ frame, is dripping with gold-leaf.

Spare no expense back in the 1880-1890 period if you were from a prominent, wealthy family.

Gold-leaf, especially the old can be very difficult to move--as it will flake off.

Hopefully it will stay at the Evermore, at it's current wall location for years (the photo above was taken in front of a fireplace before hanging).

The man shown was the scion of a wealthy family from Bordentown, New Jersey.

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Labels: BCA Financial Services Collection Agency, Bloomfield, Evermore Gallery of American Art, gilded frame, Gold leaf, John Debold

Sunday, October 7, 2007

R. Harold Sigler Photo of "Old Faithful" Geyser

The Evermore Image Gallery has just obtained an image taken by famous photographer R. Harold Sigler. This is of the geyser "Old Faithful" at Yellowstone National Park.



You can also see more of Mr. Sigler's work at the Idaho State Historical Society.

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Labels: BCA Financial Services Collection Agency, Geyser, John Debold, Old Faithful, R. Harold Sigler

Friday, October 5, 2007

Your Bus is Here! Chicago & Northwestern Stages

The Evermore Image Gallery and The Evermore Main Gallery both have transportation images and pictures. Boat, Car, Bus, Train, Airplane, you name it and you'll find it at the Evermore. The Evermore Gallery of Amercian Art is a part of the commercial debt collection agency BCA Financial Services of Bloomfield, New Jersey - Since 1968.



Oh, you want busses? Click on the picture. Google's Picasa, the host site for the Evermore, has a little magnifying glass to get real close up and personal.

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Labels: BCA Financial Services Collection Agency, Bloomfield, John Debold

Friday, September 28, 2007

Big Steel was "King" in Pennsylvania

"The Steel", as it was called seemed to employ everyone in the "Mon" (Monongahela Valley) as well as Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Evermore gallery of American Art has recently set up a separate Steel Image Gallery and will be adding to it periodically as they discover original images from what we're starting to consider the golden era, 1950-1980.

Here is an original photograph from the engineering department showing a Basic Oxygen Furnace being constructed at Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem, PA in 1968.



Go to the Steel Image Gallery and see a "Sintering Plant"

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Labels: Basic Oxygen Furnace, Bethlehem Steel, Big Steel, Evermore Gallery of American Art, John Debold, Monongahela Valley, The steel

"Bewitching" by Billy De Vorss Movie Print

Notice the color of this Hollywood Advertising print (probably from the late 1920's). They spared no expense in color processing or artistry when promoting a movie.

The Evermore Gallery's Image Collection has obtained this print in a very pleasant antique mall in Dover, New Jersey.

The picture's name was "Bewitching".

Go to "The Main Gallery" anytime. Most images not framed are photos but the staff is about to upload more color prints soon.

The Main Gallery has hundreds of framed color prints from all eras.




Here's another beauty:



The Evermore Gallery of American Art is appreciative of the backing of BCA Financial Services Collection Agency for their continued support.

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Labels: BCA Financial Services Collection Agency, billy de vorss movie print, Evermore Gallery of American Art, John Debold

Evermore Gallery Image Collection Jupiter Missile 1959

The Evermore Gallery's Image Collection staff has obtained another rare gelatin silver original print. This one is dated March 20, 1959 and is a Jupiter Missile Shell being redied for a test.

This is at the Army's Chrysler-operated Michigan Missile plant. This is called a" qualification test."

6 stories tall (60 feet) it's quite impressive, especially a print like this.

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Labels: Evermore Gallery of American Art, John Debold

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Rare Book: "The Torch is Passed" - The Associated Press Story of The Death of a President

The Associated Press tribute to the JFK Assassination in 1963. Exactly 100 pages of moving pictures and stories of the tragic day and the funeral that followed.




Go anytime to the still-evolving Rare Book Collection Center at the Evermore Gallery of American Art. Numerous volumes from the extensive collection are currently being catalogued and will be uploaded in the next two to three years.

The Evermore Gallery of Amercan Art is a division of the collection agency, BCA Financial Services of Bloomfield, New Jersey.

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Labels: BCA Financial Services Collection Agency, Evermore Gallery of American Art, JFK, John Debold, The torch is passed book

Michelangelo: The Pieta. New York World's Fair Vatican Pavillion 1964-1965

The Evermore Gallery has obtained a beautiful statue of Michelangelo's Pieta (the word supposedly means "compassion") most likely originally purchased at the gift shop at the NY World's Fair of 1964-1965.

The Evermore does not own this wonderful object however, but has it on lend from it's owners Taryn G. and Raffaele, no not the famous painter, but he does have the same name. These two art connoisseurs have just returned from an extended vacation in Italy where they viewed the famous (1499 AD) sculpture up close and personal.

This same original was shipped to the Vatican Pavillion at the fair for its only American viewing.

This heavy plaster statue souvenir has extremely fine detail. It must have been good enough to pass the Vatican's muster to be placed in their Fair Pavillion.

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Labels: BCA Financial Services Collection Agency, Bloomfield, Evermore Gallery of American Art, Michaelangelo The Pieta, NY World's Fair Pieta 1964-1965

Saturday, August 4, 2007

Twin Picture Frames Acquired 8/4/07

(c) Evermore Gallery of American Art - Geo. Schwacha Painting



These two large 1880 vintage 23" x 29" (inset) frames were obtained this weekend at an estate sale. They were in poor shape and needed to be restored and "rescued" somewhat. The Evermore Gallery of American Art has placed two temporary subjects in them for the time being. The top one is an original George Schwacha* painting called The Picnic. The other is a late vintage (1999) poster from the Montclair (New Jersey) Art Museum.

Obviously, one does not place a modern poster in a 127 year old frame, but we do it for two reasons. One, closing up a frame protects the old glass, which is wavy from old manufacturing techniques. And two, you can get an idea of the frame with something, rather than nothing in it.

* Here's what Mr. Schwacha placed on the back of every painting:
(you'll have to click on it to read it)

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Saturday, July 28, 2007

Ticket To President Garfield's Funeral

(c) evermore mail gallery


Now you find a ticket!, we'll you're about 125 years late as this large sized ticket is dated February 27, 1882 and has been in the Evermore Gallery of American Art's collection (Main Gallery) for about 17 years. He died September 19, 1881 so this memorial service was sometime later.

It measures 9 1/2" by 6" so we wonder how you put it in your wallet.

Good thing they didn't tear it in half when you entered the service.

By the Bye, the Evermore Gallery of American Art is in the same town as Holsten's, the restaurant used in the last scene in The Soprano's.

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Labels: BCA Financial Services Collection Agency, Bloomfield, Evermore Gallery of American Art

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Bloomfield, N.J. : SPORTS are at the Evermore Gallery of American Art

Yes, the Evermore Gallery of American Art takes all american artifacts seriously, not unlike the Smithsonian itself.

The folks in our sports department are working to catalog the entire collection. Scheduled opening date is October 2008 but you can get a sneak peek now here at the Sports Centre.

Here's an old jump rope:





Or how about a classic pigskin:




Here's a little slideshow:

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President William Howard Taft's Picture To Help fundraising!

President Taft Helps with Fundraising.

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Edison Amberola at the Evermore Gallery of American Art - Bloomfield, New Jersey

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The Edison "Amberola" model c. 1912. Tommy Edison's first internal-horn phonograph played "Blue Amberol" 4 minute cylinders. One of the favorites of the Evermore Gallery of American Art is "Those Days are Over"-a classic.

The Evermore purchased this working model from a Edison Phonograph collector/restorer named "Fred" (it wouldn't be polite to give his last name without his family's permission) of Bloomfield in 1990. The late Fred was deep in his nineties at the time and actually knew Mr. Edison personally, so his talks were interesting to say the least.


(c) evermore gallery americana collection

Go to the Edison National Historic Site's website (a good one by the NPS or National Park Service), unfortunately, the actual site in West Orange, NJ (very close to the Evermore Gallery as it happens) is undergoing a major tune-up and while it should open relatively soon, no date has been set.

Here's an original photo of Mr. Edison and wife Mina at an undisclosed school. We guess it to be about 1923-1929 (Mr. Edison died in 1931).


(c) evermore main gallery

Would you like to hear what we hear on this machine? The Library of Congress has a alphabetic listing of all Edison's cylinders and you can hear them on your computer as well.

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Labels: BCA Financial Services Collection Agency, Bloomfield, Evermore Gallery of American Art, Thomas edison amberola phonograph 1912

Friday, July 20, 2007

Record Store Photos From 1949

(c) evermore gallery image collection

There's Frankie on the wall.

Need records to play on your Hi-Fi? Get them at this record store called " The Holiday Shop " Records and Radios in the Roeland Park Shopping Center in Roeland Park, Kansas.

These original silver gelatin prints were just acquired by the Evermore Gallery of Art and can be seen at the gallery.


(c) evermore gallery image collection


Check them out at the Evermore Gallery Image Collection at The Evermore Gallery of American Art.

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Labels: BCA Financial Services Collection Agency, Bloomfield, Evermore Gallery of American Art, NJ, Original Record Store Interior Photograph

Monday, July 16, 2007

Check Your Zoning Laws - Old Photograph

The Evermore Gallery's numerous original silver gelatin prints can make quite an historical statement when viewed by today's standards.

Need we say more.

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Labels: BCA Financial Services Collection Agency, Bloomfield, Evermore Gallery of American Art, Old Rare Photograph Photo of Gas Tank in Pennsylvania

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Meat Market Interior 1940

The Evermore Image Collection at the Evermore Gallery of American Art has hundreds of original silver gelatin photographs for you to view. Here's a happy non-vegetarian customer.

This photo was taken by the US War Department.

If you would like permission to use any image in the
Evermore collection, please ask John Debold.



Here's some people with some big refrigerators



The Evermore Gallery of American Art is always looking...you can contact the collection
agency BCA Financial Services (John Debold) with any questions.

Oh, I know this post is too long already, but I just had to add another.

These gentlemen are going to put up a new telephone pole!

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Labels: BCA Financial Services Collection Agency, Bloomfield, Meat Market 1949 US War Department Evermore Gallery, NJ

Friday, June 15, 2007

Mary Queen of Scots Going to her beheading

How stoic would you be if you were going to your beheading? Mary Queen of Scots seemed reasonably "cool". If you click on the picture you'll be sent to the Evermore Gallery where there's a magnifying glass to enlarge any part of the image. This image was engraved in the 19th century but it depicts February 8, 1587.

The Evermore obtained the frame in the trash.





Here she is, ready for her closeup:

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Saturday, June 9, 2007

Black Americana in images

The Evermore Gallery of American Art has an extensive collection of black americana.

Unfortunately as everything at the Evermore is of a antique or historical nature, many of these particular depictions do not show black americans in a positive light.

Almost all (and Evermore has many not nearly as subtle as the one above) show blacks in a most caricatureish and degrading manner. Whether eating watermellon, grotesque features or the actual use in spelling of dialect.

A black professor once said that destroying these images is much more dangerous that keeping them. We can learn from the past.

The Evermore is an educational enterprise as much as anything else it purports to be. We learn from our mistakes by making an example of them.

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Labels: black americana, Evermore Gallery of American Art

Monday, June 4, 2007

Evermore Rare Book Collection Center

The Evermore Gallery of American Art has a Rare Book division too! It's currently in a state of uploading books, but we wanted to show a small sample. Here we have a WWII book showing New Jersey wartime production using the manufacturing plants in New Jersey (and Tarrytown, NY). Linden, N. J. had a large auto plant which was refitted for aircraft production.

Bloomfield, N.J. had a battery division and metal plant for ammunition boxes.

The book is titled "A History of Eastern Aircraft Division."

Published in 1944 by General Motors.

The Evermore Gallery is a division of BCA Financial Services Collection Agency of Bloomfield, NJ ergo the reference and interest in the Bloomfield portion of this book.

Here is another book (very out of print)

From Rare Book Col...

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Labels: BCA Financial Services Collection Agency, Bloomfield, Evermore Gallery of American Art, General Motors WWII Manufacturing, NJ, Rare Book

Saturday, June 2, 2007

New Map at the Evermore Gallery

J. & F. Tallis Map from 1851 of the United States, as they knew it.

Click on it to enlarge. You'll see a picture of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington like you've never seen them before. "Washington's Monument", and Penn's Treaty with the Indians are some of the color vignettes on this map. A Tallis map always has ornate boarders.

Also, the Texas Panhandle is missing, but many Eurpoean cartographers missed this land mass.

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Monday, May 28, 2007

Welcome to the Evermore Gallery

The Evermore Gallery of American Art has a rare and unique collection of antique original photographs, engravings, prints, and various paper and antique objects. The evermore will describe here on occasion the provenance, if known, or the story of the object.

Great for educational purposes or to begin a discussion.

Almost every period frame could be considered a work of art in itself.

The Evermore Gallery can be seen in its entirety by clicking HERE.

For instance:


Or:

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