Here’s your chance to own a piece of photographic history – come to Lopez Island Hospice and Home Support’s Jingle Dinner and Silent Auction, Nov. 30, 6 p.m. at the Lopez Community Center.

This year special emphasis has been placed on acquiring some truly wonderful items, including the crown jewel of the auction, “Magnolia Blossom Tower of Jewels 1925,” an estate print by famed photographer Imogen Cunningham.

The photograph is printed from Cunningham’s original negative by the Cunningham Trust, and stamped with her facsimile signature and chop, authenticating that the print has been made and approved by the Trust.  Printed by hand in a traditional darkroom process, this silver gelatin print is mounted and over-matted on 100 percent cotton rag museum board, and professionally framed with non-reflective glass.

For more than seventy five years, Cunningham explored the creative use of the camera.  Her botanical prints and portraits are represented in major collections and museums around the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, and the Library of Congress.

There is an abundance of other great auction items including pottery, jewelry, sculpture, and paintings by talented and generous local artists.  Bid on Mariners tickets, a firehouse birthday party, and a kitchen dinner party at Vita’s. In addition, the “Seattle Spree” package includes tickets for two on Kenmore Air, overnight accommodations at Gaslight Bed and Breakfast, dinner at Serious Pie, Tom Douglas’s renowned pizza restaurant, and a gift certificate to Pie Bar, recently featured in Sunset Magazine.   The “Play for a Day (or Two) in Anacortes” package consists of a night at the Majestic Hotel, breakfast at Dad’s Diner, dinner at Adrift, a treatment at Apothecary Spa, and gift certificates for many Anacortes businesses.

Tickets to the Jingle Bell Dinner are $50, available exclusively at Paper Scissors on the Rock.  All proceeds from the dinner and silent auction will benefit Lopez Island Hospice & Home Support.

For more information or a sneak peak at the auction catalog, contact Lynne Keeley at 468-4446, admin@lihhs.org.