Jan 30, 2025 - Sale 2692

Sale 2692 - Lot 179

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN (1915 - 1985)


Vernon Evans, migrant from South Dakota - Montana. July 1936; printed circa 1980.
Silver print, the image measuring 254x330 mm; 10x13 inches, the sheet 279x355 mm; 11x14 inches, with Rothstein's signature in pencil on recto, and his title and negative number in pencil on verso.

Rothstein's full caption from the Library of Congress reads: "Vernon Evans (with his family) of Lemmon, South Dakota, near Missoula, Montana on Highway 10. Leaving grasshopper-ridden and drought-stricken area for a new start in Oregon or Washington. Expects to arrive at Yakima in time for hop picking. Live in tent. Makes about two hundred miles a day in Model T Ford"