Feb 15, 2018 - Sale 2466

Sale 2466 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(GREAT DEPRESSION)
Mini-archive of more than 75 photographs depicting topical events throughout the U.S. during the Depression, including the migration of "Okies" to California.
Comprising 30 photographs by unidentified F.S.A. photographers of rural areas; 30 photographs documenting the ravages of the multi-year Dust Storm in Oklahoma (including two later prints of Arthur Rothstein's); and 17 additional photographs, including scenes of jobless men as well as relief and reconstruction projects. Silver prints, the images measuring 7x9 to 8x11 1/2 inches (17.8x22.9 to 20.3x29.2 cm.), and the reverse, the sheet sizes slightly larger, most with hand stamps, dates, caption information and/or trimmed newspaper clippings, on verso, and a few with mimeographed slugs; approximately 25 photographs are either RC prints or were printed later. 1930s; printed 1930s-80s

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