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

357 c   (MICHIGAN BEAN COMPANY) Amini archivewith100diversephotographs showing varied aspects of the business, including the factory and employees. With numerous intimate portraits of happy workers, from accountants and paper-pushers to mill runners, transporters, and forklift drivers; as well as various views of the plant, factory store, and heavy sorting machinery, at differing stages of the production line. Silver prints, the images measuring 4 1 / 2 x3 1 / 4 inches (11.4x8.3cm.), and the reverse, each with the date, and some with identifying captions, such as the worker’s names, in pencil, on verso. 1952 [1,400/1,800] 357 358 c   (FLOATING DRY DOCK CONSTRUCTION) Archive with 15 albums, containing 79 photographs documenting the step-by-step construction by The Tuller Construction Co. of a large f loating boat dock. Comprising 14 albums with “progress pictures” which document the 3-boat dock’s construction over a 13 month period, and an appraisal album with land surveying images, and views of the equipment needed for construction, along with approximate cost estimates. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, linen backed, each with the date in the negative, and some with the photographer’s hand stamp on verso. Oblong 4tos, brown boards, each with a typed title label. 1942-43 [1,200/1,800] 358