Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 232

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(NEW YORK CITY.) Spero, Charles; photographer. Construction of the Sixth Avenue Subway . . . from Waverly Place to 18th Street. 57 photographs, each 8 x 10 inches and mounted on linen stubs, with the firm's ink stamps and typescript caption labels on verso; minor wear, slight offsetting from labels. In oblong 4to ring binder, moderate wear, rust to binding mechanism; embossed presentation to Andreas Dasso (name painted over). New York, 1938 and undated

Additional Details

Construction photographs of the Sixth Avenue Line done for the engineering firm Spencer, White & Prentice. The tunnel opened in 1940.