Oct 15, 2015 - Sale 2393

Sale 2393 - Lot 89

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
KORTH, FRED G. (1902-1983)
A portfolio of 34 photographs taken at the Ingalls-Shepard Division of the Wyman-Gordon Company, a forged metal component manufacturer and designer in Harvey, Illinois. Includes photographs of the factory floor, men at work, the building exterior, building ammentities, and the materials being made, each forming a formal portrait of a busy manfacturer. Silver prints, 10 3/4x13 5/8 inches (27.3x34.6 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, mount size 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), each with the title and date, in pencil, on mount recto; with a printed title sheet crediting Korth and Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc. for a single aerial photograph. 1938