May 27, 2021 - Sale 2570

Sale 2570 - Lot 339

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR)
An album entitled A Century of Progress, International Exposition, Chicago 1933-34 with 50 photographs by Kaufmann and Fabry.
Presentation copy to S.L. Avery, "In Grateful Acknowledgement of valuable support." Containing images of buildings, foreign pavilions, villages, and various scenes of the fair grounds. Warm-toned silver prints, the images measuring approximately 11x8 inches (27.9x20.3 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto only, each with a caption, in pencil, on mount recto. Folio, gilt-lettered blue morocco; 1934

WITH--(KAUFMANN AND FABRY.) A Century of Progress, Publicity Division Composite. Silver print, the image measuring 10x13 1/2 inches (25.4x34.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kaufmann and Fabry's credit, title, and date, in the negative, and the printed photographer's credit, title, and date, again, on recto. 1934