Rare Ayn Rand Photo Collection for Sale

Posted by khalling 9 years, 7 months ago to History
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From Michael Brown:
"This extraordinary original set includes a Czarist-era photograph of the very young Ayn Rand surrounded by her extended family, including her parents, grandparents, and sister - likely the only such image that will ever be made available - and a photograph of Ayn Rand in 1959 reading a Random House hardcover - either her masterwork "Atlas Shrugged" or the McKeon edition of her philosophical forebear, Aristotle. Further photographs include Rand with her husband Frank O'Connor, with her protegee Nathaniel Branden and Branden's wife Barbara, Rand standing as bridesmaid at the Branden wedding and the wedding dinner, Rand's cat Francisco, the Brandens themselves, future Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, Ayn Rand's protegee Leonard Peikoff, and the young Frank O'Connor and family members (including portraits of O'Connor's brother Nick, who aided Rand in her breakthrough best-seller "The Fountainhead").

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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 7 months ago
    Looks like any old-fashioned photo album. Collections such as the one portrayed have historical importance, but, while they are collectible, they are not extremely valuable unless they are of someone very famous. When I was in the photo biz, one of the services we offered was copying and restoring old photos. In the case of albums, generally all that was wanted was copies, usually in the form of negatives. We did, over the years, make copies from family albums of a number of notable and famous people. If whoever owns the album, and they own the album legitimately, they could copy the most choice pictures and sell them individually rather than sell the entire album. That accomplishes two things; it allows a lot of Rand admirers to have photos of her and it turns the album into a mini industry for the album owner.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    From each according to the loot they have, to each according to their moocherist skill...
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But... But... you shouldn't sell them... That would be Capitalist.
    Heavens, no... You should find a worthy person who has the right-thinking purely socialist motives to give to them, so they can claim to start a museum and a Foundation for which to make them available to all the people for, of course, the "greater good" out of a spirit of altruism and brother love..............

    (OK, I was trying for humor, but I lost my breakfast instead. Darn.)
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago
    Tongue in cheek humor. How long before some museum or whatever asks to have them donated as good faith gesture of 'giving back.' Looking at some of them for the first time makes me want to have suddenly won the lottery - Then all the Gulchers could stop by for a chat, a visit and no charge admission. That's my limit on giving back!
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  • Posted by fuguewriter 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Greetings - collection owner here. Not per picture - for the collection as a whole. Bids per picture will be considered, but would prefer not to break up the collection.
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Right above the photos on k's link it tells you how to bid. I think I remember $10,000 as a minimum.
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