Oct 15, 2015 - Sale 2393

Sale 2393 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,400 - $ 1,800
(NEW YORK)
Group of approximately 225 photographs of trolleys in Manhattan and the outer boroughs by Sidney Silleck, a lawyer-cum-amateur photographer. With a host of passenger- and worked-related (e.g., snow-clearing) vehicles en route to various destinations. Also includes views of commercial signage, fashionably dressed pedestrians and dramatically-lit scenes shot under the El; many apparently captured from Silleck's automobile. Silver prints, 4 1/2x6 1/2 inches (11.4x16.5 cm.); 3 are copy images. 1940s