(NEW YORK CITY) Presentation album entitled New York City Tu

Sale 1947 - Lot 214

Price Realized: $ 3,910

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000

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Presentation album entitled "New York City Tunnel Authority" with 65 photographs depicting the construction of the Queens Midtown Tunnel and ceremonies relating to the completion of the project. Silver prints, 9 1/2x11 1/2 inches (24.1x29.2 cm.) and smaller, many with a photographic copy of a typewritten caption below the photograph. Oblong folio, black cloth; contents crisp and clean. 1936-40

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The album was originally in the collection of the grandson of William H. Friedman, one of the 3 commissioners responsible for completing the $58 million tunnel. The photographs convey the excitement and hard work that ensured the success of this civil engineering project and include the auspicious groundbreaking ceremony, in which F. D. R. is pictured in many images; strong industrial views of "holing through of the tunnel"; and the official opening ceremonies. A program and a handful of aerial pictures of N. Y. C. are also included.<