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New York City scenes (500+) glass plate camera negatives. ...
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New York City scenes (500+) glass plate camera negatives. (ca. 1890s-1920s) Massive collection of vintage (500+) glass plate camera negatives ranging in size from 4 x 5 in. to 11 x 14 in. depicting vintage images of New York City. With (100+) 11 x 14 in. camera negatives by Irving Underhill documenting properties for the City Investing Company. Also featuring work by photographers Edwin Levick, August Loeffler, J.S. Johnston, William Henry Jackson and outlets such as Brown Brothers, Frederick Lewis and Culver photo services. Images include, Leo Lentelli's statue "Purity" in Times Square, ruins of the Madison Avenue car barns after a 1907 fire, Grand Central Terminal rail yard, pedestrians strolling, M. Knoedler & Co. art gallery, period advertising hoardings, lumber carts at Broadway, automobile dealership showroom at Broadway, New York Stock Exchange, shoppers crowding the streets, American Horse Exchange building, 14th St. from Union Square, Harold Square, Long Acre Theater, RCA Building, Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Flatiron Building, Decker Building, Ehlanger Theater, Rialto Theater (showing a Chaplin film in 1916), New York Transportation Co. building, shops, horse carts and peddlers, Hudson River, the Grand Opera House, Shot Tower, All Soul's Church, Singer Building, Queensboro Bridge Plaza in Long Island City, Coney Island, old Tiffany & Co. building at 16th St. and Union Square in 1906, a massive Haeger warehouse on Eighth Ave., St. Thomas Church, 5th Ave. Baptist Church, homes along E. 124th St., Central Park, Macy's, Academy of Music in 1910, road workers and pedestrians along 4th Ave., Hudson Terrace Hotel at Riverside Dr., United States Marine Corps. marching in the Hudson Fulton Celebration parade on 30 September 1909, an early automobile parked on 34th St., demolished building making way for the Hudson Terminal on Dey St. in 1906, the Belvedere Hotel, workmen laying a large pipe on 7th Ave., a public water pump at Trinity Place in 1904, and much, much more. Exhibiting hand retouching, some emulsion loss, oxidation, corner chipping and loss, hairline cracks and stripping. In vintage very good to fine condition. Special shipping arrangements will apply.Auction Info
Profiles in History: Hollywood Summer 2015 #997027 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
September, 2015
29th
Tuesday
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