Feb 14, 2017 - Sale 2436

Sale 2436 - Lot 278

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(WORLD WAR II--"CHOW TIME")
A small archive containing approximately 165 photographs pertaining to CHOW: A Cook's Tour of Military Food.
With detailed and jovial scenes of the boys on the front prepping, schlepping, baking, cooking, carving, tasting, snacking, packing, mixing, serving, and feasting. Also incuded are still-lifes of packaged rations, and freshly prepared portions. Chromogenic (one) and silver (164) prints, the images measuring approximately 5x7 (6) and 8x10 (159) inches (12.7x17.8 and 20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, each with a typed caption, date, and U.S. Army credit on verso. 1940s-70s