Apr 20, 2017 - Sale 2443

Sale 2443 - Lot 312

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(WOMEN LABORERS)
A group of 13 photographs of women working in industrial settings.
Some are counting and sorting cardboard, others stamping or welding metal components, and still others staffing the first-aid ward in a cigar factory. Ferrotyped silver prints, the images measuring approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, some with typed captions, on recto or verso, and 8 with Women's Bureau U.S. Department Of Labor hand stamps, some with the photographer or studio hand stamp, and some with a caption, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1930s