Sale 2520 | Lot 352
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September 8, 2019
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(GOLDEN GATE EXPOSITION, SAN FRANCISCO) A mini-archive with 35 photographs pertaining to the construction and architecture of the Golden Gate International Exposition.
With numerous views showing the elaborate planning and laborious fabrication of San Francisco's Treasure Island, as well as pictorial depictions of the modernist infrastructure constructed solely for the exposition. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 5x7 to 14x11 inches (12.7x17.8 to 35.6x27.9 cm.), nearly half with captions in the negative and a few with hand stamps and notations, in pencil and ink, on verso. 1936-40
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