Dec 09, 2010 - Sale 2233

Sale 2233 - Lot 98

Price Realized: $ 2,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,400 - $ 1,800
(OCCUPATIONALS)
Select group of approximately 140 photographs of American women at work during and after WW II, with members of the distaff sex engaged in a myriad of unlady-like tasks, including operating heavy machinery, factory piece work, and road repair, in addition to more traditional jobs, such as dieticians, cooks, bookkeepers, waitresses, and nurses. Silver prints, 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, many with a typewritten caption and hand stamp on verso; with several duplicates and copy prints. Circa 1943-early 1950s