?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(CONSTRUCTION) A group of approximately 142 real photo postcards and 52 photographs showing the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, in California.
A set of images depicting views of the bridge and tunnel construction from the banks of the San Francisco Bay and taken from the bridge span itself. Many showing employees of the American Bridge Company on site building what was then the longest bridge span in the United States. Silver prints, with 142 printed on carte-postale paper, the images measuring 2 1/4x4 to 9 1/2x7 3/4 inches (5.7x10.2 to 24.1x19.7 cm.), and the reverse, some with the sheets slightly larger, most with descriptive captions, in the negative, a few with a Photo By M.W. Swansick hand stamp, and a date hand stamp, on verso. 1933-36
