Oct 25, 2016 - Sale 2426

Sale 2426 - Lot 347

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(PENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD)
Group of approximately 115 photographs, including employees, terminals, operators, and trains.
Including candid and studio portraits of employees in uniform (featuring some employees in a typology, pictured from various sides), and terminal interiors and exteriors; some with African American subjects, a female rail-switch operator, and other female railroad employees. Silver prints, most ferrotyped, the images measuring approximately 9x7 to 14x5 5/8 inches (22.9x17.8 to 35.6x14.3 cm.), and the reverse, occasionally with retouching for reproduction on recto; some with notations, in pencil, others with a photographer's hand stamp, on verso, and some with a caption label attached to recto or verso; approximately 12 with a punched studio credit. Circa 1950