(AMERICAN INDUSTRY) Group of 12 modernist photographs relati

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(AMERICAN INDUSTRY)
Group of 12 modernist photographs relating to the production of energy, comprising 5 of the New York Edison plant, including views of its mammoth turbine generators and combustion chambers, 5 of the Jones and Laughlin steel mill, and 2 of Norfolk & Western Ry. of miners digging coal. Ferrotyped silver prints, 6 1/2x8 1/2 inches (16.5x21.6 cm.), in period window mats measuring 12 3/4x13 inches (32.4x33 cm.), each with a typewriten caption. 1910-1920

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with--Group of more than 310 photographs depicting the Phoenix Utitility Co. in Allentown, PA, with detailed views of the exterior and interior sites. Silver prints, 4x6 1/2 inches (10.2x16.2 cm.), and smaller, most are copiously annotated, in ink, on verso. 1920-1923.