Feb 28, 2002 - Sale 1926

Sale 1926 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 862
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PHOTOGRAPHS.) Pair of photographs of soldiers on the European front at Easter services, one showing white soldiers kneeling in prayer being led by an adorned priest at an altar (by Paris), the other showing Black soldiers in prayer surrounded by sandbags led by a minister in fatigues (by Rusbar). Each 10x13 inches; contemporary inscriptions and field press stamps on verso. Vp, circa 1944

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This pair of photographs by war correspondents shows the sharp contrast between the treatment of white and black troops.<