Mar 23, 2010 - Sale 2208

Sale 2208 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
SAVAGE, CHARLES R. (1832-1909)
"Central Tunnel, Cañon of Grand River, Colo., D & R.G.R.R." Mammoth printing-out-paper (Aristotype) print, 16 3/4x21 inches (42.5x53.3 cm.), on a period mount, with Savage's credit and title in the negative. Circa 1890

Additional Details

Acquired from a private California dealer in 1998.
The Photograph and the American Dream 1840-1940, 127.

This image features the two primary means of communication in the west--the railroad and the telegraph.