Dec 01, 2011 - Sale 2263

Sale 2263 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(BURROUGHS, JOHN.) Group of 8 photographs and postcards concerning naturalist John Burroughs. 3 Real Photo postcards, 3 printed postcards, and 2 photographs, each about 3 x 5 inches; condition generally strong, some annotated. Vp, 1906-14 and nd

Additional Details

One of the photographs depicts Burroughs in Florida with Thomas Edison and Henry Ford in 1914. Most of the remainder depict Burroughs and/or his home town of Roxbury, NY. From the collection of Burroughs's former Roxbury schoolmate Alexander Smith of Iowa.