Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 88

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,400 - $ 1,800
(TRAIN ACCIDENTS)
Group 48 photographs of train wrecks, including head-on collisions, derailments, and collisions with buildings, many showing the train cars toppled and those involved with the accident standing on the cars or around the scene. Silver prints (42), including 13 on carte-postale paper, printing-out paper prints (4), and albumen prints (2), sizes ranging from 2 1/2x4 to 6 3/4x8 3/4 inches (6.4x10.2 to 17.1x22.2 cm.), and the reverse, 23 are mounted, 12 show notations or a date, in pencil or in ink, and 2 with a photographer's stamp, on recto or verso. 1890s-1940s (one later)