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(ROAD TRIP)
Album depicting a fun and busy American-style road trip that Prizza E. Levey (sp?) and his family
took from Ludlow,Vermont out West, with 185 photographs. The album has a diaristic feel since
many of the pages contain his handwritten notations, in white ink, with details about the excursion.
Included is a two-part panorama of El Tovar by the Detroit Photographic Co., cowboys and steers,
snaps of Native figures in the Grand Canyon, a view of Fremont and Party by Avdelotte, scenes of
Levey and his family enjoying excursions into the desert and pictures of the natural landscape and
vegetation in California and the Southwest. Silver prints, various sizes, most are 4x3 inches (10.2x7.6
cm.). Oblong 4to, suede, with unusual pyrograph cover. 1904
[300/450]
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(NEWYORK CITY)
Binder containing more than 95 photographs
of lower Manhattan.The photographs appear
to have been compiled by a designer or an
engineer, who enjoyed trimming pictures into
special shapes and sizes, creating panoramas,
and playing with cut-outs to create freestanding
photographic objects.With many variant images
of the popular Plimpton’s FurnitureWarehouse.
Laid in is the business card of James L. Plimpton.
Also features views of subway construction,
plenty of street scenes, and storefront signage.
Cyanotypes (21) and silver prints (75), various
sizes from 3
3
/
4
x5 to 3
1
/
2
x12 inches (8.9x12.7
to 8.9x30.5 cm.), several with notations.
1900-1905
[1,500/2,500]
Also includes scenes of folks promenading on the
Williamsburg(?) Bridge, numerous street scenes,
views of elevated train lines, pics of Plimpton’s in
other locations, St. Mark’s Church, bird’s-eye-views
of the city, and more.
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