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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(AFRICA) A group of 16 press photographs related to the American experience of 1930s-40s Africa, including 12 apparently by the noted hunter and animal collector Frank Buck. The press photographs include an image of Buck with his 1930 bestseller Bring 'Em Back Alive. The group also includes five photographs that are stills from the 1928 film Simba: King of the Beasts which was a travelogue following the American couple Osa and Martin Johnson on a four-year expedition in Africa. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, each with a Roland Butler Press Agent stamp, 12 with Buck's credit in pencil, and four with the Simba credit and caption in pencil, on verso. 1928-50
WITH--An uncredited set of images, apparently of an African country, by an accomplished photographer comprising a partial portfolio. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 8 1/2x6 inches (21.6x15.2 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, tipped to textured paper mounts 13 5/8x11 5/8 inches (34.6x29.5 cm.), each with a debossed number 1-32 on mount recto and a protective overlay; numbers 4 and 24 missing (there are two of plate 32). Circa 1950s
Provenance: The Estate of Richard T. Rosenthal, Philadelphia
