Feb 25, 2016 - Sale 2406

Sale 2406 - Lot 228

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(SALESMAN'S SAMPLE ALBUM)
Album with 84 photographs depicting the Gainaday Electric Company and the New Gainaday Electric Washer.
With professional photographs of trade displays, storefront installations, the machine parts, trucks with the company's advertising on the side, executives and salesmen associated with the company, and a mother and daughter doing their washing. Silver prints, 7 1/4x9 1/4 inches (18.4x23.5 cm.), and the reverse, mounted to linen recto only, many with a caption and occasionally a date in the negative (including locations of storefronts across the Northest and Midwest), and some with the photographer's credit (Kaufman), in ink, on mount verso; with a few additional photographs, both advertising shots and snaps, laid in. Small 4to, gilt-lettered leather with a twin-bolt binding and snapped flap enclosure. Circa 1927-29

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