(PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD) Pair of albums containing more than

Sale 2146 - Lot 284

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(PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD)
Pair of albums containing more than 200 photographs depicting Erie Railroad Stations by J. E. Bailey. Album I is entitled "Meadville Division, East" and contains approximately 110 photographs and includes Saegertown, Cambridge Springs, Venango, Millers, Union City, Mill Village, Lakewood and Jamestown, New York, and much more. Album II is entitled "Meadville Division, West" and contains 95 photographs, including Geneva, Greenville, Shenango, Freedom, Ravenna, and Kent, Ohio and more. Silver prints, 7x9 inches (17.7x22.8 cm.), each with handwritten caption on mount recto and Bailey's hand stamp and date on verso. Oblong small folio, black cloth with gilt-lettered titles, soiled, "West" is disbound; contents generally clean and bright; ties. 1910-11

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J. E. Bailey composed each study aesthetically by positioning the edifice from multiple perspectives, thereby providing a detailed visual record of vernacular architecture in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.

Each suite of pictures opens with a schematic (pencil drawing), to scale, in which the interior is carefully rendered. Although Bailey's commission focuses on depots, there's also sense of human industry present. Several of the photographs show machinery, wagons and wheelbarrows artfully arranged in the picture, or local laborers and nattily-dressed gentlemen patiently waiting until the photographer has snapped his shutter.