Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018
348 c (NEW ENGLAND—TRANSPORTATION AND DAILY LIFE) Album with 55 photographs by a talented commercial photographer of Southbridge, Massachusetts and its environs. The pictures range from newly manufactured trolley cars to proto-modernist views of track work weaving through the countryside; plus interior views of the power plant; celebratory scenes of townspeople; majestic Victorian houses; and pastoral studies that recall Constable’s landscape paintings. Warm-toned silver prints, the images measuring 7 3 / 8 x 9 1 / 2 inches (18.8x24.1 cm.), several with titles, in ink, on mount recto. Oblong 4to, leatherette. Circa 1895 [2,000/3,000]
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