Apr 18, 2019 - Sale 2506

Sale 2506 - Lot 305

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(INDY 500)
Album containing 156 photographs of the famed Indiana 500 races, including pre-race parades, practice laps, motorcars zooming past, and candid portraits of drivers and pit stop crews.
Apparently photographed and compiled over a four year period by a figure on the inside. The images document life in the pits and prepping for the races, highlighting the graphic, sponsor-covered liveries of the 200 MPH racecars. IndyCar legends like Bobby Unser and Johnny Rutherford are featured numerous times. Chromogenic (152) and silver (4) prints, sleeved recto/verso, the images measuring approximately 3 1/2x5 inches (8.9x12.7 cm.), a few with a postcard printing and date stamp, on verso. Oblong 4to, red vinyl boards; 3-ring binding. 1973-77

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