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(SYRACUSE ARCHITECTURE & SANATORIUM ALBUM)
Album belonging to Guy H. Baldwin (1912-1987), who studied architecture at SU, with 300
photographs. During his college years, Baldwin was admitted to the Onondaga Sanatorium, and many
pictures show him and other patients.Also depicted are various buildings at SU, friends and teachers
(including FredericW. Revels, who designed many of the buildings on campus), fraternity gatherings,
and football games. Silver prints, sizes ranging from 1
1
/
2
x2
1
/
2
to 3x5
1
/
4
inches (3.8x6.5 to 7.6x13.3
cm.), mounted recto/verso, most with Baldwin’s meticulous calligraphic notations, in white and
embossed gold ink. Oblong 4to, leather, worn. 1930s
[800/1,200]
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(NYC FERRY TERMINAL)
Post-war album entitled “St. George FerryTerminal, Staten Island,” with more than 110 photographs
relating to ferry sites in downtown Brooklyn, lower Manhattan and the west side.With scenes of
maritime activity along the East and Hudson Rivers, derricks and oversized machinery used in the
demolition of old sites and construction of new ones. Silver prints, 7
1
/
2
x9 inches (19.1x22.9 cm.),
each print is linen backed and with a caption and date in the negative; a few with the hand stamp
of Weitzman’s Photo Shop, Staten Island, NY, on verso. Oblong 4to, leatherette, multi-ring binder.
1947-1948
[3,000/4,500]
The bygone era of ferry travel, once a preferred mode of transportation for Brooklynites and Staten
Islanders to lower Manhattan, was already diminishing in the 1940s.The album chronicles this transition
as ferry terminals were being demolished or repaired along the East and Hudson Rivers.
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