?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
DESIGNER UNKNOWN SEE BOULDER DAM / NEW YORK CENTRAL SYSTEM. Circa 1937. 40 3/4x27 inches, 103 1/2x68 1/2 cm. Condition B+: repaired tear from top margin into upper text; repaired tears, restored losses, overpainting and time-staining in margins. An exceptional and early image of America's most famous dam, in which the technical details of the structure stand out amidst the almost primitive rendering of the surrounding mountains and the distant Lake Mead. Construction of the dam was completed in 1936 and it was known as Boulder Dam until 1947, when Congress passed a resolution renaming the dam after President Herbert Hoover. This exact image was used by both the New York Central Line and the Union Pacific Railroad; for the latter, "Union Pacific Railroad 'The Boulder Dam Route'" is printed at the bottom.
