Apr 19, 2018 - Sale 2474

Sale 2474 - Lot 288

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,400 - $ 1,800
(CAR CRASHES)
Binder containing 36 photographs of automobiles, tractors and trailers after accidents and collisions, comprising 28 medium-format photographs by local photojournalists and 8 small-format amateur pictures.
Monster, period automobiles are shown throughout Philadelphia after crashing into houses, churches, trees, train tracks and other cars. Ferrotyped silver prints, the images measuring 3x5 to 9 1/2x7 3/4 inches (7.6x12.7 to 24.1x19.7 cm.), and the reverse. the sheets slightly larger, a few with cropping marks on recto, and most of the press prints with a combination of hand stamps, dates, caption labels, and/or newspaper clipping captions on verso. 1951-91

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