Oct 15, 2015 - Sale 2393

Sale 2393 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 9,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
(BAY BRIDGE)
A set of 11 albums detailing the construction of the original San Francisco-Oakland Bay Suspension Bridge, in California, with approximately 1,050 photographs. Includes the burial of lighting cables, workmen swaying as they balance on catwalks and steel beams, the installation of cables at each anchorage of the bridge, construction of the anchorage towers, and surrounding street-crossings and underpass installations. Silver prints, 3 1/8x5 3/8 inches (7.9x13.7 cm.), and the reverse, each cornered and mounted recto/verso; most with captions in the negative. 4tos, stiff wrappers, some with titles mounted on the front cover. 1935