Oct 17, 2014 - Sale 2361

Sale 2361 - Lot 88

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(COAL MINING)
Album with 49 silver prints depicting the drilling, surface stripping, and unloading of Hull-Rust Pit and Mahoning Mine, the largest open pit mine in the world, as well as the Ore Docks at Duluth, Poe Lock, and the opening of Gary Harbor. Silver prints, approximately 7 1/8x9 1/8 inches (18.1x23.2 cm.), mounted recto/verso, each with a typed caption below the image. Oblong 4to, leather with a twin bolt binding, worn; with one detached. 1907-08

Additional Details

with--African-American group in meat market. Linen-backed silver print, 7 1/8x9 1/8 inches (18.1x23.2 cm.), with "Coal Mines Department Interior of Edgewater commissary. Screening around meat market," in ink, and embossed Land Department hand stamp on recto, and a United States Steel Corporation hand stamp, in ink, on verso. 1913.