Sale 2466 - Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, February 15, 2018

257 c   (HYDRO POWER, NIAGARA FALLS) An album with 50 dramatic photographs documenting the construction of a power house and associated infrastructure in Niagara Falls, New York. With images documenting the construction of a power house, tunnels, and associated buildings. Platinum prints, the images measuring 7 1 / 2 x9 3 / 4 inches (19.1x24.8 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, each with a caption, date, and inventory number in the negative. Oblong 4to, gilt-lettered green cloth, with “April 14-June 1, 1902” and the negative numbers written across the top edge of the text block. 1902   [1,400/1,800] 258 c   (UNION STOCKYARDS CO.) Neatly compiled album entitled Union Stock Yards Co., South Omaha, Nebraska. With 15 crisp photographs depicting various facets of the once energetic trackside livestock market including cattle pens (both empty and full); examinations by cattlemen; crammed rail yards packed with billowing steam trains; nearby factories, packing companies, and the Stock Yards National Bank Silver; and a gang-like group portrait of well-weathered Brakemen at the Yard Master’s office. Silver prints, the images measuring 4 1 / 2 x6 1 / 2 inches (11.4x16.5 cm.), tipped to heavy grey pages, a third with an identifying arrow, in ink, on the image, and each with a detailed typed caption on page recto. 4to, paper covers with a handwritten title; split- pin binding. Circa 1910 [700/1,000] 257 258