Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(AFRICAN AMERICANS.) Group of 11 press photographs of a California National Guard unit taken for Ebony Magazine. Each 8 x 10 inches, most with inked stamps and typed or manuscript captions on verso. Camp Roberts, CA, 1958

Additional Details

The photographs depict summer training for members of the 1402nd Combat Engineer Battalion, all of them African American, including their commander Lt. Col. Orlando Flowers.