Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
DE SALIGNAC, EUGENE (1861-1943)
Group of approximately 60 cyanotypes depicting the construction of the Manhattan Bridge, primarily chronicling Brooklyn Plaza construction, but also with scenes of the bridge towers and cables, workers in white shirts, subway digging, machinery, and New York City turn-of-the-century architecture in the background. Cyanotypes, measuring approximately 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), each with a number in the negative, and most of the prints with a combination of notations and stamps, including all but approximately 15 with a caption, in ink, 42 with a Manhattan Bridge Brooklyn Plaza hand stamp, and others with a small oval Supreme Court hand stamp, primarily on recto. 1913-22