[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] -- [NEW YORK]. Album with photographs documenting a trip to New York, 1886.
Sale 1136 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots Open
Mar 27, 2023
Lots Close
Apr 4, 2023
Timed Online / Cincinnati
Estimate
$300 -
$400
Sold for $693
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] -- [NEW YORK]. Album with photographs documenting a trip to New York, 1886.
Oblong quarto (9 1/2 x 12 in.) 240 x 305 mm. Contains 31 photographs, ranging in size from 4 3/8 x 6 7/8 in. to 6 3/4 x 9 1/8 in., mounted on 9 1/2 x 11 in. album pages (toning, occasional spotting, and soiling to prints; toning and spotting to album pages). Lacking boards (spine present but nearly detached and deteriorating). First page with ink inscribed title, "Visit to New York. / April 11th to June 3rd / 1886." Each photograph accompanied by period inked caption on album page. The images document a visit to New York, with views of Queenstown Harbor, the Brooklyn Bridge, Castle Garden, Battery Park, Wall Street, Trinity Church, Broadway, Fifth Avenue Hotel, Grand Central Depot. Central Park, the Academy of Design, a locomotive at the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, Niagara, and other notable subjects. The few first and final pages of the album feature handpainted flags and seals, one being the flag of the White Star Line, an unknown heraldic symbol, a 38-star American flag, a Union shield, and a monogram.
Property of a New York Lady
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