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STEINER, RALPH (1899-1986)
Portfolio titled “Ten Photographs from theTwenties andThirties & One From the Seventies,” with
11 (of 11) photographs. Silver prints, sizes ranging from 4
1
/
2
x3
1
/
2
to 9
1
/
2
x7
1
/
2
inches (11.4x8.9 to
24.1x19.1 cm.), and the reverse, each with Steiner’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto. Folio-sized
black-stamped clamshell box with the 11th photograph mounted to the front cover (“A Look at
Laundry”); with the colophon with the edition notation 2/25, in ink; original packaging with a
signed note from Steiner; contents loose as issued. 1920s-1930s, 1970s; printed 1977
[10,000/15,000]
“Typewriter as Design” * “Lollipop” * “Always—Camel Cigarettes” * “Ford” * “Wicker Chair” * “Nehi
Sign” * “Row of Albany Houses” * “Ham and Eggs” * “The Coconut Factory” * “After the Rehearsal”
* “A Look at Laundry.”
WITH
—
Untitled (Saratoga Coal Company). Silver print, 7
1
/
2
x9
1
/
2
inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), with Steiner’s
signature and dates, in pencil, on verso. 1929; printed 1977.
This last print may be the “surprise” print that Steiner’s inscription refers to.
Acquired directly from the photographer in 1978; to a Private Collector, Michigan.