Apr 15, 2021 - Sale 2564

Sale 2564 - Lot 123

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ALASKA.) Lomen Brothers, photographers. Photograph of 5 Inuit children in Nome. Warm-toned silver print, 7 1/2 x 9 inches, with photographer credit, date, and inventory number 213 in the negative; minimal wear. Nome, AK, 1905

Additional Details

The Lomen Brothers operated a drug store and a photography studio, and also exported reindeer meat. Provenance: collector Stephen White, published in his "The Photograph and the American Dream 1840-1940," 54; Swann's Stephen White sale to the consignor, 23 March 2010, lot 23.