Oct 18, 2018 - Sale 2489

Sale 2489 - Lot 332

Price Realized: $ 2,340
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
EUGENE DE SALIGNAC (1861-1943)
Group of 24 photographs depicting construction of the Manhattan Bridge, in NYC.
A set of formal compositions primarily depicting views of bridge and subway track construction, including images made on both the Manhattan and Brooklyn sides, and on the bridge span itself, with many showing workers on site. Cyanotypes, the images measuring approximately 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, each with a number in the negative; all but 8 of the prints with a caption, in ink, and 7 with a small oval Supreme Court hand stamp (3) and/or a Manhattan Bridge Brooklyn Plaza hand stamp (7), on recto. 1913-22

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