May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 108

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MEDICINE)
Gathering of 30 timely press photographs of kids and adults being vaccinated for measles, typhoid or Polio. This former American rite of passage includes grimacing children, others restrained by parents or physicians, lines of military personnel awaiting the needle, kids with lollipops, and a picture of a sad-eyed chihuahua being innoculated, too. Silver prints, 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), and the reverse, many with hand stamps, notations, clippings or captions on verso; a few are retouched. Early 1940s-50s