Dec 05, 2002 - Sale 1954

Sale 1954 - Lot 440

Price Realized: $ 1,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(EDISON, THOMAS A.)
Album entitled "Thomas Edison's Laboratory Compound Enshrined on the Golden Anniversary of the Incandescent Lamp" with 27 photographs depicting exterior and interior scenes of Edison's industrial complex as it was reinstalled by Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. Warm-toned silver prints, 7x9 inches or the reverse (17.8x23 cm.), with an extensive typewritten caption on the facing page. Oblong 4to, gilt-decorated leatherette. 1929

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Includes photographs of Edison, Ford, Pres. Herbert Hoover, and other notables as well as modernist views of machinery.