May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 107

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(CRIME)
Album containing 51 gruesome photographs of crime scenes by Dr. Edward E. Smith, Coroner of Franklin County, Ohio. With especially bloody murders, grisly automobile wrecks, sad suicides, and much more; 17 with Smith's facsimile signature hand stamp on recto, and others with his stamped signature or initials on recto or verso. Silver prints (cornered), 2 are 3 3/4x4 3/4 and most are approximately 7 1/2x9 1/4 inches (2 are 9.5x12.1 to 19.1x23.5 cm.), and the reverse. Oblong folio, brown leatherette; with Smith's white-lettered notations on the front flyleaf; ties. 1932

Additional Details

A very graphic selection of images that includes a poigant scene of a man who was apparently murdered for stealing chickens.