Sale 2458 - Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, October 19, 2017

320 c   (PHOTO OBJECTS) A small collection of numerous photographic items, including a salesman’s sample suitcase and graphic collages. A N.M. Friedman & Co. salesman’s sample suitcase with 2 oval photographs, one hand-tinted and the other under bubble glass. Each approximately 17x11 1 / 4 inches (43.2x28.6 cm.). With the companion sales catalogue. 1910s. AND— A brightly-colored window card advertisement for “Miniature Portraits While you Wait 25¢, Tinting Extra.” With 12 vividly hand-tinted silver print portraits of young men, ladies, and children, artfully arranged and cornered onto the mount. Each photograph measures 1 3 / 4 x1 1 / 2 inches (4.4x3.8 cm.), overall size 17 1 / 4 x10 1 / 4 inches (43.8x26 cm.). 1920s. WITH— A group of 4 mixed-media items by French and Canadian artists utilizing photographic collage. The first a large watercolor of a World War I scene commemorating the battle at Châlon, with original photographs of two French soldiers; the second a smaller World War I print with the face of a mustachioed French figure; the third a Canadian pastiche with commercial labels bearing many different business logos that is inset with 4 family photographs; the fourth a humorous chromolithograph of a muscleman with a small photographic headshot. Overall various sizes from 5 3 / 4 x6 3 / 4 to 17x21 inches (14.6x17.1 to 43.2x53.3 cm.). 1914-1920s. AND— A group of 3 framed items. Comprising a World War I printed memorial item entitled “In Flanders’ Fields,” with a poem dedicated to Lt. Col. John McCrae and a small picture of him; a study of a guy that’s overlaid with his circular headshot and in an Art Deco frame; a collage of the “5 pins,” a bowling team, in an unusually carved wooden frame. Silver prints, various sizes, overall size of frames 5x4 to 11 1 / 2 x9 inches. 1918-1940s. [1,000/1,500]