Feb 17, 2004 - Sale 1996

Sale 1996 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 8,050
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 7,000
(WAR)
Collection of approximately 570 photographs documenting several different military theaters of the 20th-century, featuring 4 prints of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, 2 with Edward Steichen's penciled notations "Franklin," on verso; World War II prints chronicling American naval and aerial campaigns in the Pacific and in Europe as well as a group of prints depicting Nazi activities; Korea; Vietnam; the Spanish Civil War and Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and Japanese control of China. Silver prints, most are 10x8 inches or the reverse (25.4x20.3 cm.) and slightly smaller, many with captions and hand stamps on verso; 18 are matted. 1930s-60s
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Several of the photographs were in the collection of Tom Maloney, editor of "U. S. Camera," who worked with Edward Steichen, then Chief Naval Photographer, during the second World War.