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(COTTON MILL/HOTROOM
EXPERIMENTS)
An album with 25 curious photographs
depicting employees of a cotton mill in
Montmorency, Canada and “hotroom
experiments” at Laval University.
With the first section showing 8 scenes of
workers having lunch, spinning cotton, and
socializing. The second section exhibits men
exercising in the “hotroom,” and checking each
other’s pulse, as well as 13 clinical full-body
portraits of men and one woman in bathing
suits and under garments. Silver prints, the
images measuring 9
1
/
2
x3
5
/
8
inches (24.1x9.2
cm.) (13) and 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.) (12),
mounted recto/verso to black pages. Oblong
4to, black leatherette, with a handwritten label
affixed to the front cover. 1948-49
[600/900]
WITH 4 DAGUERREOTYPE POST-MORTEMS
348A
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(VERNACULAR EMBALMING)
The RenouardTraining School of Embalmers, Class of 1926, NewYork (with Prof.Auguste
Renouard in the upper right corner)
.
Silver print, the image measuring 10
1
/
8
x13
1
/
8
inches
(25.8x33.4cm.), the mount 15
3
/
4
x20 inches (40x50.8 cm.), with the photographer’s credit W.A.
Sprinkle, in the negative, and with a printed title and caption identifying each of the students on
mount recto. 1926
[800/1,200]
With the Board of Embalming Examiners of the State of NewYork Certificate issued to Ray Anson,
who is shown in the lower right.
ACCOMPANIED BY—
Group of 4 post-mortem daguerreotypes
. Comprising a half-plate of family
group with the mother cradling her toddler, 2 variant sixth-plates of a man in a coffin, and a sixth-
plate of a mother holding her deceased infant. 1850s.
348A
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