May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 10,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
SHERMAN, AUGUSTUS (1865-1925)
Group of 37 photographs of newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island. Silver prints, 33 are 6 1/2x4 1/2 inches (16.5x11.4 cm.) and 4 are 3 7/8x2 3/4 inches (9.8x7 cm.), most with a typewritten caption on verso, one each with a handwritten caption, a label, a clipping, and a print adhered to an envelope. Circa 1905-20

Additional Details

"Batiste Ugo (giant) and French dwarf" "Cossack" "Greek Soldier" "Malakan from Russia" "Cossack" (another subject) "Arabian Jugglers" "Ellis Island matron with typical children of different nationalities" "Dutch children" "Italian boy" "Serbvian Gypsy Family" "Dutch" (woman) "Finnish Family" "Hungarian-German Girl, Katalin Barel, 21" "Roumanian woman" "Swedish Children" "German Family" "Bavarian" "Marie Loncarevic (Croatian)" "Scotch boys" "Holland women" "Anthony Carbonetto" "Enrico Cardi, Italian soldier" Man with pistol "Group of Roumanian shepherds" "Pair of Roumanian Shepherds" "Religious fanatic" "Algerian polygamist" "S. S. Columbia, 3rd class" (Scottish children) "Greek woman wearing coins" "Ruthenian Girl" "Roumanian Piper" "Italian (girl in headdress)" "Lapland Woman."

The 4 small-format prints include: Francesco Luongo Young woman Polish Gaciliana woman Older woman in headdress.