May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 80

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR)
Presentation album entitled "Photographs, New York World's Fair 1939," with 54 large-format celebratory images, including a dapper Howard Hughes with New York City officials and luminaries, models of the site, construction of various buildings (with strong studies of laborers), opening ceremonies, media coverage and photo ops, parades in lower Manhattan, visitors at the fair, and more. Silver prints, 14x18 inches (35.6x45.7 cm.), and the reverse, bound in singly. Folio, gilt-lettered leatherette with a twin-bolt binding, lightly soiled, with small paint spot on front cover. 1939