Oct 18, 2018 - Sale 2489

Sale 2489 - Lot 350

Price Realized: $ 845
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(GAS & ELECTRIC)
A handmade album with 58 photographs of plants, substations and gas works installed by the Luz Company Gas and Electric Corp.
Showing various machinery and infrastructure that was erected for other companies throughout the Pennsylvania area. Numerous images show utility poles and electrical towers, photographed in a proto-modernist style. Silver prints, the images measuring 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, nearly all with captions and the photographer's credit in the negative, mounted recto only to tabbed card pages, each with a descriptive caption, and some with dates, in ink, on tab rectos. Hand-constructed 4to, brown card covers, with a handwritten title; ties. 1923-28

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