?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(SNAPSHOTS--CUSTOM SHAPES AND SIZES) An artfully printed and compiled snapshot album, containing approximately 662 frolicsome and competent photographs, many of which are printed and trimmed to playful shapes such as apples, pipes, butterflies, owls, and more. Including various scenes of rural American life, including tending to the horses, cows, pigs, and chickens; vacationing with the family, by both car and boat; and images throughout of women and children posed in numerous costumes and outfits, each for a different occasion, and some apparently for performances. Silver prints (655) and cyanotypes (7), the images measuring 1x 1/2 to 3 1/2x5 inches (2.5x1.3 to 8.9x12.7 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto/verso to black pages, as many as 10 to a page, many with captions and dates, in white ink, beneath the images. 4to, brown crocodile leatherette. 1908-15
Many of the photograpghs in this album were printed in custom shapes with handmade printing templates. Each was then meticulously trimmed to the detailed shape, leaving a fine white border.
