Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 124

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(BRIDGES)
Album with over 300 photographs of bridges in the United States, both over roads and bodies of water, some under construction, but primarily completed and noting structural components or necessary repairs, including both striking clean shots of the full structure and detailed close-ups of needed repairs, as well as 7 panoramas (6 made with 2 photographs mounted together and the last with 3); each with a caption noting the location and other technical details. The bridges are nearly always located on the West Coast, including Oregon, Arizona, Washington, California, many constructed with the Federal Aid Project. Silver prints, sizes ranging from approximately 3x5 1/2 to 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (7.6x14 to 19.1x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, the largest panorama measuring 2 7/8x13 3/4 inches (7.3x34.9 cm.), most pages mounted recto/verso, one or more per page, each page with a typed caption label. Oblong folio, paper over boards covers with a twin-bolt binding (top bolt missing), worn. Late 1930s