Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

346 c   (EVIDENCE) A group of 39 photographs showing officers and detectives of the Cleveland, OH police department posed with masses of seized contraband and crime scene evidence. With images of squad members presenting and examining the illicit objects. Including an 11- inch chromed hood ornament that pierced a victim’s skull during a car accident, a vast pile of confiscated marijuana, a lost goat, weapons of various shapes and sizes, 110 stolen wallets, vials of illegal narcotics, black-market meat, and of course, stacks of looted cash. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 7x9 inches (17.8x22.9 cm.), and slightly smaller, each with various hand stamps and notations, in pencil, and some with affixed captions, on verso. 1930s-50s [1,200/1,800] 347 c   (MANSON FAMILY) A small archive with 19 press photographs pertaining to Charles Manson’s Family and the Tate-LaBianca murder trials. Containing numerous images of Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel during, before, and after the trial in which a jury “decreed death in the gas chamber.” In multiple photographs the “family” are shown as an eerily cheerful bunch, even when facing such grave sentencing. Also present are images of Linda Kasabian, a former “family” member and key witness during the trial; Sharon Tate and Jay Sebring; and a photograph by Manson of an armored “command vehicle” on the Barker Ranch in Death Valley. Silver prints, the images measuring 9x7 inches (22.9x17.8 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, nearly all with typed captions in the negative, and with notations, in pencil, and hand stamps on verso. 1969-71 [1,000/1,500] 346 347