Apr 20, 2017 - Sale 2443

Sale 2443 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(YALE UNIVERSITY)
Group of 11 large-format photographs, comprising buff athetes, including Chung Mun Yew (the Chinese coxswain and member of the team that beat Harvard) and a view of the boathouse.
Albumen prints, the images measuring 9x13 1/2x to 11 1/4x16 3/4 inches (22.9x34.3 to 28.6x42.5 cm.), the mounts as large as 11 1/4x16 1/2 inches (29.8x41.9 cm.), with the Pach Bros. credit on mounts recto or verso. 1874-90

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WITH--A Western Union Telegraph to the Captain of the Yale Unversity Boating Club from Arthur M. Sherwood, Secy. of the Harvard Club, dated Dec. 23, 1875, in which "The HUBC hereby accepts the challenge of the YUBC to a row a four mile straight away race."

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