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

21 c (LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILROAD) Presentation album entitled Structures of the L.S. & M.S. Railway , with 33 mammoth-plate photographs of newly-constructed viaducts, arch culverts, and swing bridges along the railroad route. With photographs by H.L. Bliss (27), Sweeney of Cleveland (4), and an uncredited photographer (2) showing topographic views of state-of-the-art construction projects that span the width of rivers, highways, and creeks; a few with crossing trains and a handful showing signage and pedestrians. Albumen prints, the images measuring 8 3 / 4 x11 to 13x16 1 / 2 inches (22.2x27.9 to 33x41.9 cm.), mounted recto only to heavy pages, each with a printed caption, location, technical information, photographers’ credits, and engineers involved; the final print is a lithograph of the L.S. & M.S. passenger depot in Chicago. Oblong elephant folio, black leather boards with moroccan borders and gilt embellishments. Circa 1875   [3,000/4,500] 22 c F. JAY HAYNES (1853-1921) Grand Canyon [of the Yellowstone] from Artist’s Point. Mammoth-plate carbon print, the image measuring 18x23 3 / 4 inches (45.7x60.3 cm.), flush mounted, with Haynes’ signature, in white ink, on recto, and with the title, in pencil, and his Yellowstone hand stamp, on mount verso. 1890s [3,000/4,500] 23 c CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829-1916) The Great Yo Semite Falls. Mammoth-plate albumen print, the image measuring 15 5 / 8 x20 1 / 2 inches (39.6x52.1 cm.), the mount 21 1 / 2 x27 1 / 2 inches (54.6x69.9 cm.), with a title, in pencil, on mount recto. 1861; printed circa 1865 [5,000/7,500] Naef and Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins, The Complete Mammoth Photographs , pl. 195, p.88 (where it is titled Yosemite Falls, Front View ). 21