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(ASTRONOMY)
Soviet-era portfolio entitled “Pokrovsky Observatory,” with 54 photographs.
Includes images of astronomers manning telescopes, refractors, men and women in laboratories, on-
site views of observatories, and more. Redatakor: Prof. K. D. Pokrovsky. Silver prints, 8
1
/
2
x6
1
/
4
inches
(21.6x15.9 cm.), one is smaller; with a number and caption information, in Cyrllic, in the negative,
and the “Soyuzfoto” credit. Oblong folio folding jacket, debossed red cloth with the date and a
mounted photograph on front cover; contents loose as issued. 1935
[1,000/1,500]
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BODINE, A. AUBREY (1906-1970)
“Fort Macon Beach.” Carbon print, 7
1
/
4
x9
1
/
4
inches (18.4x23.5 cm.), with Bodine’s signature, title,
and date, in pencil, on the original overmat, and with the title and print type, in pencil, and multiple
exhibition and camera club plates on mount verso. 1932
[4,000/6,000]
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