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

287 c   (BASEBALL) Jackie Robinson signing a contract with Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey, heralding the end of segregation in Major League Baseball. Ferrotyped silver print, the image measuring 4 3 / 8 x5 1 / 2 inches (11.1x14 cm.), the sheet 5x7 inches (12.7x17.8 cm.), with various press labels, hand stamps, and notations, in pencil, on verso. 1947; printed 1970s [1,000/1,500] 287 288 c   (WOMAN BULLFIGHTER) A series of 6 photographs depicting noted “torera” Bertha Trujillo of Colombia. With shots of Trujillo tempting a bull with her cape, using her sword in a battle against the beast, and exiting the ring bloodied and exhausted, but victorious; accompanied by three pages of related information about Trujillo’s career. Ferrotyped silver prints, the images measuring approximately 9 1 / 2 x7 1 / 2 inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), and one reverse, the sheets slightly larger, each with a Hamilton Wright press agency hand stamp on verso. 1955-56 [1,000/1,500] From the Jay Culver Family Collection. These photographs were printed in the April 16, 1956 issue of LIFE Magazine . 288