Apr 19, 2016 - Sale 2411

Sale 2411 - Lot 256

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(RAILROADIANA)
Salesman's sample album with approximately 140 cyanotypes of handsome Pullman railroad chairs customized for upscale passengers.
A multitude of types and styles are depicted, including wicker and leather-backed chairs, plush velvet armchairs with and without tassels, reclining chairs, comfortable Queen Ann chairs, a leather sofa, as well as barber shop-style headrest swivel seats; with a single print of a table. Cyanotypes, 8x4 1/2 inches (20.3x11.4 cm.), with signage in the image area noting the lot and inventory number, manufacturer, and dimensions of the object; also includes 6 silver prints, each of these with Pullman's embossed Chicago hand stamp. Oblong 8vo, flexible leather twin-bolt binding. Circa 1900
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This rare and wonderful album features a typology of Victorian furniture, with parlor and observation car chairs; room, desk and dining chairs; barber chairs; recliners; and a medium-sized sofa. The Pullman Company, which was founded by George M. Pullman, was an American success story. Pullman built, operated, and maintained a fleet of first class passenger rail cars, and is credited with introducing the first comfortable sleeping car for railroad travel in 1858. Pullman's empire reached its peak in the 1930s. His slogan "Travel and Sleep in Pullman Safety and Comfort" was renowned world-wide.

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