Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 462

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(WOMEN'S HISTORY--BEAUTY.) Photographs and finishing school diploma of an aspiring model. Approximately 80 photographs in various sizes ranging from 4 x 3 inches to 10 x 8 inches, plus two pieces of ephemera; some photographs mounted on scrapbook leaves, some others with mount remnants on verso, minor to moderate wear. Philadelphia, 1943-1953 and undated

Additional Details

These photographs of Lucille Minoe include several professionally posed modeling shots by Condax Studios and Thomas Hanks of Pennsylvania, as well as family photographs dating back to age 13, and nightclub snapshots. Also included are her 1951 professional modeling diploma from the Glamour Finishing School of Philadelphia, and the graduation program naming her and the other graduates.