Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 128

Price Realized: $ 13,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
(WINDOW DISPLAYS)
Thick album with more than 220 photographs of window display tableaux at Kleinhans Department Store in Buffalo, New York, a high-end department store and the largest men's clothier in the United States. Each depicting menswear in a variety of jaunty and modern designs meant to appeal to everyone, from the career to college man--including suits, neckwear, knits, sporting wear, hats, luggage, coats, and shoes--for a variety of seasons and all weather; nearly all photographed at night. Silver prints, each approximately 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), mounted to linen, some with a Kleinhans Display Director credit in the negative, and each with a Kleinhans hand stamp on mount verso, some with a date and notation, in ink. Oblong 4to, green boards with an embossed Master Made Clothes Cincinnati cover and a split pin binding, worn. 1930s