Oct 02, 2001 - Sale 1907

Sale 1907 - Lot 59

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD
Pair of advertising cards, one with a view of Yosemite Valley, the other with 4 smaller photographs taken along the Central Pacific line. Albumen prints, 5x7 3/4 and 2 3/4x4 inches, with a printed photographer's credit and the seller's name and address and a calligraphic caption, in ink, on mount recto. Circa 1870
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A wonderful use of photography, these cards were employed by Charles G. Ewing, a San Francisco optician, to advertise Muybridge's photographs.