Mar 11, 2021 - Sale 2561

Sale 2561 - Lot 335

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(DAREDEVIL PHOTOGRAPHER)
A series of 6 photographs of Philadelphia photojournalist Walter Crail at the edges of various tall buildings attempting to get the best shot.
Silver prints, the images measuring 3 3/4x4 5/8 inches (9.5x11.7 cm.), and the reverse, one slightly smaller, each with the subject's name, twice, in ink and pencil, and the date in ink, on verso. 1917

Additional Details

Crail was a crackerjack photojournalist who photographed "every news event of importance" for the Philadelphia Public Ledger.