Apr 19, 2016 - Sale 2411

Sale 2411 - Lot 253

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PANORAMIC VIEWS--THE CONGO, AFRICA)
Box entitled VELOX containing more than 190 panoramic prints by Rev. J. M. Springer, apparently a Methodist missionary in The Congo. With many topographic scenes, views of cities like Elizabethville and Capetown, as well copper mines, village life, church services with native peoples, local industry (quarrying), hospitals, and more. Silver prints, 3 1/4x11 inches (8.3x27.9 cm.), several with Springer's signature, in pencil, on verso. 1924
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ACCOMPANIED BY--Collection of 110 oversized stereo views by an accomplished amateur photographer depicting exotic locales, such as India, China, Japan, the Middle East, Europe (Spain, Italy), and the United States; a few duplicates. Circa 1905.

From the Collection of Harry Amdur.

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