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(EICHLEAY ENGINEERING CO.)
A mini-archive of 70 photographs depicting houses, monuments, and buildings being
lifted and moved by the Eichleay Engineering Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The pictures record the painstaking transfer of buildings, including rolling the Bell Telephone
Company, in Indianapolis, 150 feet without disturbing the 600 employees working inside, and
splitting the George Eastman House in order to accommodate the large organ in the front hall.
Silver prints, the images measuring 10
1
/
2
x6
3
/
4
to 8
1
/
2
x11 inches (26.7x17.1 to 21.6x27.9 cm.), the
mounts various sizes, some with inventory numbers in the negative and nearly all with some
notations, or a hand stamp, identifying the locations, dates, photographers, and distances moved, on
print verso. Circa 1918-30s
[1,500/2,500]
WITH—A pair of brochures for the company that feature reproductions of many of the images
included in this lot.
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EUGENE DE SALIGNAC
(1861-1943)
Group of approximately 29 photo-
graphs depicting construction of the
Manhattan Bridge.
The accomplished compositions include
Brooklyn Plaza, Jay Street, Flatbush
Avenue,“men at work,” subway digging
and other elaborate construction scenes,
and machinery; some with New York
City turn-of-the-century architecture
or the bridge itself in the background.
Cyanotypes, the images measuring
7
1
/
2
x9
1
/
2
inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and the
reverse, each with a number in the
negative, and most of the prints with a combination of notations and stamps, including many with
a caption and date, in ink or in pencil, some with a Manhattan Bridge Brooklyn Plaza hand stamp
and/or a small oval Supreme Court handstamp, on recto; one duplicate. 1913-22
[1,400/1,800]
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