Apr 18, 2019 - Sale 2506

Sale 2506 - Lot 281

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SALEM, OREGON--THE CHRISTMAS FLOOD)
Album with 42 photographs made in the days after the "Christmas Flood," one of the worst disasters in the state of Oregon during the 20th century.
With scenes of displaced vehicles such as a seaplane moored to a railroad track; rising and dissipating floodwaters; and the National Guard who stepped in during the height of flooding. Silver prints, each measuring approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), cornered in recto/verso, each with a typed caption label beneath. Oblong 4to, green boards; ties. 1964-65

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