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(ANSEL ADAMS)
Hills Brothers coffee can,
with a wraparound image
of Adams’
Winter Morning,Yosemite Valley;
this can
with the rare original red and yellow “belly band.”
Tin, 7 inches high and 6
1
/
4
in diameter (17.8 and
15.9 cm.), with the printed Hills Brothers and
Adams credit and the date; with the original plastic
top which reads “Head for the HILLS!” 1969
[600/900]
WITH
—A group of 4 breakfast or dinner menus for
Yosemite National Park’s restaurant atTheAhwahnee
Hotel, each highlighted with a reproduction of an
Adams photograph.
We have not previously seen an example of this iconic
coffee can at auction that includes the belly band.
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(MALE NUDES—SCRAPBOOKING)
Pair of artfully compiled albums with approximately 900 images of bodybuilders and
beefcakes, most of which are x-rated.
The scrapbooks are meticulously collaged with magazine cutouts and collected photographic imagery;
many of the photographic prints are trimmed to fill the entire space.The images show well-endowed
young men posing in the studio, in the great outdoors and in the bedroom;“stand to order”while others
are “at ease.”The first album with approximately 500 images, 222 of which are original photographs,
including chromogenic (20) and silver prints (202).The second with approximately 400 images collected
from magazines and other commercial sources. Prints from
1
/
2
x1 to 11x8 inches (1.3x2.5 to 27.9x20.3
cm.). Folios, photo-pictorial boards and plain boards. 1960s-80s
[1,400/1,800]
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(MEXICAN CINEMA)
A sensational and dramatic group of 58 Mexican lobby cards for B-movies.
With cards for 15 different
movies including the cult classics
El Baron del Terror,Tiempo de Morir, El Vampiro y el Sexo, Sangre de
Virgenes,
and
Click: Fotografo de Modelos.
Offset lithographs, overall size 11x14 inches (28x35.6 cm.),
each with a mounted silver print, 6
1
/
2
x8 inches (16.5x20.3 cm.). Circa 1960s
[400/600]
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