Apr 19, 2018 - Sale 2474

Sale 2474 - Lot 266

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(OIL--PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION)
An album entitled Oil to the Sea, with 48 photographs documenting the construction of the Mercedes Oil Pipeline from central to coastal Colombia.
Following the pipeline as it's built, the photographs document the workers, process of construction, and pipeline details, as well as drum storage, rigs, and aerial views. Silver prints, the images measuring 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto only, to cream pages, each with a typed identifying caption label. 4to, brown leather covered boards; twin-bolt binding. 1940s