Feb 25, 2020 - Sale 2531

Sale 2531 - Lot 242

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,400 - $ 1,800
(CALIFORNIA)
Presentation album with 27 photographs, comprising 24 of San Francisco and Golden Gate Bay and 3 of Yosemite.
With photographs that reflect a growing and diverse city, including landmarks like the Ferry Landing, Barbary Coast, and the Mission Delores Church, adobe domiciles, street scenes including Clay Street, views from Telegraph Hill and California Street, and studies of the residents of Chinatown, with exterior and interior views of a restaurant; the 3 prints of Yosemite include Big Tree and Bridal Veil. Albumen prints, the images measuring 5 5/8x3 5/8 inches (14.2x9.1 cm.), and the reverse, prints mounted recto only, each with a caption, in ink, below the photograph. Small 4to, debossed cloth; a few leaves detached. 1889

Additional Details

The album was presented to Thomas Bours by T. McSweeny in Feburary 1889.