(NEW YORK CITY) Large collection of professional photographs

Sale 2391 - Lot 273

Price Realized: $ 1,375

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

(NEW YORK CITY.) Large collection of professional photographs of Times Square's Astor Hotel. 182 photographs in various formats, loose or mounted in two albums; various sizes and conditions. New York, [1904]-circa 1950s

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The Hotel Astor opened in 1904 at Broadway and 44th Street, and became a touchstone of Times Square glamour through the 1950s; it was closed and demolished in 1967. This lot includes: Album of 42 mounted photographs of the hotel, apparently from around the time it opened circa 1904, almost all credited in mount and negative to Joseph Byron of New York, a few to Drucker & Co., in worn oblong folio 1/2 morocco, lacking front board; several photographs apparently removed Album of 33 later Hotel Astor photographs, linen-backed, 10 x 14 inches, signed in the negative by "Byron Co.," circa 1933 12 large Byron photographs of the hotel, about 11 x 14 inches, most mounted, most worn Disbound album of 28 Drucker & Co. photographs of the hotel, some showing second-phase construction, 1908 and undated Group of 67 8 x 10 inch photographs of the hotel, some of them after being renamed the Sheraton-Astor in 1954, by William F. Howland (20), Empire Photographers (10), and miscellaneous or unknown photographers (37), circa 1920s-1950s.