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

332 332 c   (BOARD OF EDUCATION, LOS ANGELES—EARTHQUAKE REPAIRS) An informative application dossier for a loan and grant of $22,532,000 in order to perform imperative post-earthquake repairs on the Los Angeles school system. The dossier includes numerous letters, budgets, and floor plans, as well as approximately 79 photographs illustrating the intense and extreme damage inflicted upon various schools in the Los Angeles area. With many scenes of partially collapsed buildings, sunken ceilings, and cracked interior and exterior walls. Silver prints, the images measuring 5x7 inches (12.7x17.8 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto only, 2 to a page. 4to, blue print cover page; double-prong binding. 1935 [1,200/1,800] 333 333 c   STANLEY N. HOYT (active 1900-1915) Group of 20 photographs of San Francisco billboards that survived the 1906 earthquake. Includes graphic ads for a variety of goods and services, such as wallpaper, furnishing stores, Hunter Whiskey, various clothing and tailors, trips to Mt. Tamalpais or Muir Woods, beer, cigars, and magazines. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 4 3 / 4 x6 1 / 2 inches (12.1x16.5 cm.), and the reverse, with Hoyt’s facsimile signature hand stamp and later notations, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1907-08 [2,500/3,500]