Apr 17, 2014 - Sale 2345

Sale 2345 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 384
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(WICKER CARRIAGE CO.)
Album containing 14 occupational photographs of men and women laborers crafting and finishing wicker baby carriages. The album opens with an overview of the factory, as men weave long pieces of the fiber into recognizable shapes. There are scenes of stacked armatures and metal wheels, large flats of the raw material, men assembling the carriages, women at sewing machines, rows of beautifully-shaped wicker canopies awaiting finishing, the final product being inspected, and overalled workers carting away materials. Silver prints, 4 1/2x6 1/2 inches (11.4x16.5 cm.), mounted recto/verso; with the name D. L. Seymour & Co., 1452 Penobscot Blvd, #13, written in white ink on the front pastedown. Oblong 8vo, cloth; soiled; contents tight. 1920s