(BYRON STUDIO NEW YORK CITY) Album with 43 handsome medium

Sale 2411 - Lot 272

Price Realized: $ 3,000

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 400 - $ 500

(BYRON STUDIO--NEW YORK CITY)
Album with 43 handsome medium-format photographs of the E.R. Durkee & Co. Factory, Elmhurst, Long Island.
The pictures include architectural views of the Deco-style building, scenes of landscaping and vegetation (including gardeners at work), interior views of executive offices, the bookkeeping department, dining room, and laborers in the printing department. Silver prints mounted to linen, 10 1/4x13 inches (26x33 cm.), each with Byron Co.'s credit and inventory number in the negative, many with captions. Oblong gilt-lettered leatherette, twin-bolt binding. 1930s

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The Durkee Company manufactured bottles used in salad dressings, which were patented in 1877. They were also a producer of salad dressings and spices which they shipped nationwide via railroad that connected directly to the Elmhurst plant.

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