Mar 23, 2010 - Sale 2208

Sale 2208 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
PURVIANCE, WILLIAM T. (active 1860s-1870s)
"Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia." Albumen print, 9 3/4x13 inches (24.8x33 cm.), flush mounted to a contemporary board, with the title, in the negative; on the Philadelphia Railroad series gilt-ruled mount with the photographer's letterpress credit, title, and series title on recto. Circa 1870
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Acquired from James Cummings Books, New York in 1996.
The Photograph and the American Dream 1840-1940, 77.

Purviance issued a series of stereo cards in the 1870s. Prints in this larger format are scarce.