May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
HALL, LIDA (active 1913-25)
Mini-archive of Atlantic City with approximately 300 vintage prints taken over a year long period by Hall, a local photographer, depicting summer revelers, beachniks, tourists, boardwalk habitués, parades, colorful bathing costumes, scenes of the town, and pretty sunsets, in addition to seasonal images of Hall's family during the autumn and winter. The prints are housed in more than 85 Kraft envelopes, each containing multiple prints, most with an inventory number and/or date, in pencil, on the front. Silver prints, 3x4 1/4 inches (7.6x10.8 cm.), and the reverse, with Hall's caption and/or a date, in pencil, on verso. 1915-16

Additional Details

with--A pair of contemporary publications featuring Hall's pictures, including Atlantic City Remembered (Thirty-Two Postcards Made from Antique Photographs) and An Atlantic City Album, Photographs 1913-1925. Each with many reproductions. Oblong 4tos, photo-pictorial stiff wrappers. Atlantic City, New Jersey: Chelsea Press, 1978 and 1979.