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

55 c FREDERICK MONSEN (1865-1929) The Painted Desert (Arizona). Sepia-toned silver print, the image measuring 10 1 / 4 x17 1 / 2 inches (26x44.5 cm.), the double mount 19 3 / 4 x25 1 / 2 inches (50.2x64.8 cm.), with Monsen’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and a sticker that reads “The Frederick Monsen Indian Photographs, #1043, The Painted Desert, Black Mesa in the Distance, 14 W. 12 St. NY” on mount verso. Circa 1905 [1,500/2,500] Acquired from Tom Jacobson; to Jonathan Stein; to a Private New York Collector. 56 c J.W. BLEDSOE (active early 1900s) A panorama entitled 200 miles of the Sierra Nevada River (Nevada and California). Silver prints, the image measuring overall 15 1 / 2 x120 inches (39.4x304.8 cm.), with Bledsoe’s signature, title, date, and copyright, in ink, on recto. 1907 [3,000/4,500] Acquired from John Howell Rare Books, August 24, 1981; to a Private New York Collector. 55 56 (detail)