Oct 31 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2684 -

Sale 2684 - Lot 146

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
J.L. MUTZBAUER (1884-1965)
Approximately 500 commercial portraits, likely made for employee badges, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 1940s-50s.
Most of the photographs are in the form of photo strips, cut somewhat unevenly in sets of five (2), four (14), three (39), doubles (64), and singles (220), though each strip may show more than one figure. Each figure is posed in front of a height chart, and were likely made for a variety of local companies. Silver prints, each of the overall sheets measuring 1½ inches (3.8 cm.) square to 8½x1½ inches (21.6x3.8 cm.).
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