Dec 11, 2012 - Sale 2298

Sale 2298 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CHICAGO WORLDS FAIR.)
A Century of Progress, International Exposition, Chicago, 1933-1934.
Presentation copy to P.D. Block, "In Grateful Acknowledgement of valuable support." Illustrated with 50 original photographs depicting the Chicago World's Fair and its environs. Silver prints, 8x11 inches (20.3x28 cm.), and the reverse, each with a caption, in pencil, on mount recto. Folio, gilt-lettered blue cloth. 1934
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The 1896 Directory to the Iron and Steel Works of the United States lists Block as the treasurer of the Inland Steel Company (successor to Chicago Steel Works) of Chicago Heights. In 1936 he was the president of Inland Steel as well as the Inland Steamship Company.