Mar 11, 2021 - Sale 2561

Sale 2561 - Lot 380

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,400 - $ 1,800
(CHICAGO--LEPLEY & JOSWICK)
An archive from a working class commercial/industrial photographer in Chicago, with approximately 175 prints of products, workers, and businesses.


A range of commercial images depicting different areas of industry in Chicago. Includes approximately 40 photographs from a food factory including assembly line workers, 20 of canned and boxed food products and packaging, 40 of products ranging from waffle makers to radios, 20 of an electronics fair, 8 photos of an auto-repair shop and car showroom, and some city street photos and photos of a house interior. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 9 3/4x7 3/4 inches (24.8x19.7 cm.), and the reverse, some smaller, approximately 35 with Lepley and Joswick Photographers credit hand stamp, on verso. 1940s