Sep 26, 2024 - Sale 2679

Sale 2679 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

(AERIAL EXPLORATIONS, INC.)


A selection of 10 aerial views of New York City, including Williamsburg, the West Side Highway, bridges, Queens, Manhattan, and more. Circa 1935-38.
Silver prints, the images measuring 17¾x23 cm, 7x9 inches, and slightly smaller, the sheets slightly larger, one flush mounted, each with an Aerial Explorations credit in the negative, and 7 with an Aerial Explorations copyright and/or an Aerial Explorations address stamp and each with a caption and most with a date in pencil or ink, on verso.

Spuyten Duyvil, Henry Hudson Parkway Bridge, Bronx, 1938 * World's Fair, Flushing (2), nd * Radio City, Palazzo d'Italia, Manhattan, 1935 * West Side Highway, 1936 * Williamsburg Housing Project, Brooklyn, 1937 * Williamsburg, McCormick, 1936 * North Beach Airport in foreground, Rikers Island in background, nd * Grand Central Parkway Extension, 1935 * Kew Gardens, Grand Central Parkway, 1935.