Apr 14, 2022 - Sale 2601

Sale 2601 - Lot 272

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SHIPPING--CANALS)
An album with more than 50 photographs documenting the New York State canal system.
With images of the lock system, loaded up barges, bird's-eye views of towns (including New York City harbor), bridges, unloading freight, modern canal ships, tugboats, and more. Silver prints, the images measuring 4 1/4x6 1/2 inches (10.8x16.5 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, each with a caption on the mount below the image. Small oblong 4to, leather rear cover (the front lacking), worn; including a 1919 map of the canal system in the state, and a photograph of a document detailing the canal's specs, including its 525 miles, costs, depths, and names of each canal networked into the full system. 1919