May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 135

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(DETROIT PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY)
Group of more than 80 topographic, scenic, and industrial photographs in the United States, with a few of Mexico, comprising 64 beautiful views of Colorado, including Mt. Ouray, Long's Peak, Fisher's Peak, Trout Lake, Mt. Sopris, Pike's Peak, Platte Canyon, and downtown Denver; 10 views attributed to William Henry Jackson (with his inventory number and block-letter caption in the negative); a picture of Saginac Lake (Michigan) and another of the Detroit Boat Club; 5 prints of salt production in Salinas, Mexico; 2 views of the Solvay Company's industrial buildings in Syracuse; and 4 Photochromes of Colorado. Silver prints, each measuring approximately 7 1/4x9 1/4 inches (18.4x23.5 cm.), and the reverse, nearly all with a caption and the Detroit Company credit, in the negative or in the margin, some with hand stamps and/or notations, in ink or in pencil, on verso. Circa 1900