Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(NEW YORK CITY--BROOKLYN.) Mammoth photo of "Shaw & Truesdell, Wholesale Dealers in Grain" on the Gowanus Canal. Albumen photograph, 15 x 19 inches, on printed mount of photographer George P. Hall; photograph clean and crisp, minor dampstaining to mount edges. Brooklyn, NY, circa 1883-1890
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A view of Brooklyn's industrial heyday, showing a grain elevator at the foot of Second Avenue where it meets the Gowanus Canal. A canal boat is parked out in front, and horse-drawn carts are being loaded with sacks of grain for sale to the newly urbanized masses. This neighborhood, to the west of affluent Park Slope, is still largely industrial.

The photographer was at this 157 Fulton Street Manhattan address from 1883 to 1901, but was there exclusively only through 1890; this mount does not list their other studios. Shaw & Truesdell was at this location by 1884.