Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 509

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PHOTOGRAPHY.) BATTEY, CORNELIUS MARION. Two photographs: one, a group of decrepit wood shacks, the other a field of corn with a heap of old farm equipment and logs in the foreground. 8 x 10 silver print photographs with Battey's blind-stamps in the lower right corner; the first photo with the number 26 in the bottom center of the negative; the second with the number 35 in the lower right corner above the blind-stamp. Tuskegee, circa 1917-1920's.

Additional Details

A pencil note on the reverse of the image of the cornfield states: "Much explanation lacking," and "Trash removed before truck could enter."