Oct 20, 2022 - Sale 2618

Sale 2618 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965)
Ferry boats still transport some of the traffic between New York City and Jersey * Ferry boats still make train connections which transport passengers in and out of New York City. Together, 2 photographs documenting ferry boats in New York Harbor. Silver prints, the images measuring 7 3/8x7 1/2 inches (18.7x19.1 cm.), each with a (faint) Resettlement Administration number on verso. 1939

Provenance: From the Photographer; to Walker Evans, before 1940; to an editor at Princeton, New Jersey; to Photo West Gallery/Bradley Lemery, San Diego; to the Present Owner

Rare, possibly unique vintage prints of these images. The nitrate negatives (LC-USF34-19839-E and LC-USF34-19840-E) are housed at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., Farm Security Administration Prints, and Photographs Division.