Feb 25, 2020 - Sale 2531

Sale 2531 - Lot 280

Unsold
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(NIAGARA FALLS--ENERGY)
Pair of albums with approximately 178 photographs of the construction of the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant.
Including aerial photographs, construction details, and photographs of machinery and materials. Construction of the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant began in 1957, and when it opened in 1961, it was the largest hydropower facility in the Western world. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 3 5/8x4 5/8 inches (9.2x11.7 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, inserted into pastic sleeves, with printed inventory numbers and dates, on recto, and some with captions, on verso. 8vos, leatherette, the front covers with titles, in ink, on tape. 1959-60

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