Oct 18, 2018 - Sale 2489

Sale 2489 - Lot 387

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(SOLAR ECLIPSE)
A series of 8 photographs depicting the solar eclipse of 1925 in Norwich, CT.
Made in Norwich, Connecticut by the Standardizing and Testing Department, The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston. Silver prints, the images measuring 4x3 1/2 inches (10.2x8.9 cm.), and slightly smaller, the mounts slightly larger, additionally mounted to a board approximately 9 1/4x27 1/2 inches (23.5x69.9 cm.), with a double mounted typed label, on mount recto; the period frame with another typed label with photographic data, on verso. 1925