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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
(BATTLESHIPS & AVIATION) Album with nearly 175 photographs of ships, many in various stages of contruction and launch at the Fore River Shipyard, and images of biplanes free-wheeling in front of a dapper crowd. Silver prints, 5x3 inches (12.7x7.6 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto/verso one or 2 to a page, and each with a carefully hand-lettered caption and number, in white ink, in an unknown hand, on the mount. Oblong 4to, leather, worn. 1913-16
The Fore River Shipyard began operations in 1883 in Braintree and moved to Quincy Point in 1901, eventually closing in 1986. During its operation, yardworkers constructed hundreds of ships for both military and civilian clients, including the USS Salem, battleship ARA Rivadavia, and USS Nevada, all pictured in this album.
