Dec 11, 2012 - Sale 2298

Sale 2298 - Lot 135

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(VERNACULAR)
Suite of 3 albums depicting wonderful photographs of trolleys, one each of California, Britain, and Canada, with a total of 590 professional photographs representing this colorful form of transportation. Includes the single- and double-decker varieties, bustling street scenes featuring signage on the trolleys, buildings or billboards, period automobiles, and more. Silver prints, each approximately 3 1/2x5 1/2 inches (8.9x14 cm.), cornered, with handwritten notations on many pages identifying the city or geographical location. Oblong folios, gilt-lettered leatherette; nut-and-bolt bindings. 1940s-1950s