May 20, 2004 - Sale 2007

Sale 2007 - Lot 383

Price Realized: $ 5,290
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
BOURKE-WHITE, MARGARET (1904-1971)
Archive containing approximately 120 photographs of caterpillars, praying manti, larvae, and other entomological wonders, along with 10 photographs of eastern European cities and the countryside. Silver prints, 11x14 to 31/2x41/2 inches (27.9x35.6 to 8.9x11.4 cm.) and the reverse, 3 with Bourke-White's hand stamp and many with numeric notations, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1939
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Before Catherine Chalmers there was Bourke-White, who devoted herself to entomological research with a passion equal to that shown in her industrial studies.