?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
(SCIENCE & PRAIRIE-STYLE ARCHITECTURE) Album entitled Jensen-Salsbery Laboratories, Kansas City, Missouri,with 39 accomplished photographs by Stamey. The lab, which was designed and built by the regional Prairie School architect Ernest O. Bostrom (1888-1969), appears to have specialized in developing serums to fight anthrax. Includes exterior views of the building and site, white-coated scientists administering poisonous drugs to horses and the horrific aftermath, plus bottled and packaged drug displays, diseased birds, horses and hogs, and unmasked laborers disposing of carcasses. Silver prints, the images measuring 7 1/2x9 1/4 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), mounted recto only to linen, with Stamey's credit in the negative. Oblong folio, leatherette; ties. 1920s
