Dec 12, 2013 - Sale 2335

Sale 2335 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 910
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(NEW YORK)
Pair of albums relating to constructions projects in NYC containing more than 230 photographs, comprising a binder with 55 medium-format photographs of the 63rd Street Subway expansion, with views of men drilling through through gigantic slabs of granite, engineering feats of tunnel reinforcement and bustling street scenes by Gill Photographers, Fred Gasparini, and M. Ostergaard; and an album entitled "Thirty Wall Street," with 180 small-format prints detailing building construction in lower Manhattan. Silver and chromogenic prints, 2 3/4x4 inches (5.7x10.2 cm.), with typewritten captions, and 9 1/2x7 inches (24.1x17.8 cm.), with a caption label and credit on verso. Leatherette 4to binder and oblong gilt lettered burgundy leatherette folio, front cover detached. 1953 through 1977-1978

Additional Details

with--Pair of albumen prints depicting construction on East 23 Street and Broadway by the photographer Langill; the photographs mounted recto/verso, each measuring 7x9 1/4 inches, with a caption and credit in the negative. 1895.