Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 176

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,400 - $ 1,800
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Group of 12 graphic photographs of billboards on heavily trafficked city streets and highways in Portland, Oregon, and 50 smaller prints of commercial signage and billboards in Tacoma, Washington. The views feature busy commercial sites and include great pictures of vintage automobiles. Silver prints, the larger prints measuring 8x10 1/2 inches (20.3x26.7 cm.), each with a caption in the negative, and with the Foster and Kleiser imprint, as well as copious information about each intersection, including its daily and monthly circulation, the bulletin sizes, and the distance, all on the flush mounts verso. The smaller prints are approximately 4 1/2x6 1/2 inches (11.4x16.5 cm.), and smaller, with notations identifying the location, in ink, on recto and a Foster and Kleiser hand stamp on verso. Late 1950s