Oct 22, 2020 - Sale 2548

Sale 2548 - Lot 247

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION--UNION PACIFIC)
An album with approximately 92 photographs documenting railway construction, trains, and the workers in Utah and Wyoming.



Seemingly made by a worker or employee, including well-composed photographs of trains on the move (several marked as Union Pacific Railroad), the tracks under construction, workers posing in front of enormous engines and on the tracks, the surrounding landscape, and images seemingly made from the trains themselves, all in the stark and beautiful landscape of the American West. Silver prints, the images measuring 4 1/2x6 1/2 inches (11.4x16.5 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, mounted recto/verso, some with identifying captions and the date, in pencil, below the photographs. Oblong 8vo, plain cloth covers, lightly worn; tied binding. 1914