$800
Thirteen Photographs of Telegraph Buildings, 19th and early 20th centuries, including two large albumen images, one marked Natural Bridge, Virginia, the other Broken Bow, Nebraska, an albumen cabinet card and two albumen stereoviews of the Western Union Telegraph Building, New York City, an albumen stereoviews by C. W. Woodward, Rochester, New York, of the Western Union Telegraph Company Marine Office in New York City, an albumen stereoview of the Western Union Telegraph Company building on Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, an albumen stereoview by E.G. Rollins, Gloucester, Massachusetts, of a Western Union Telegraph office, an unidentified albumen stereoview of a Western Union Telegraph office, an albumen stereoview by Purviance of telegraph poles along a railroad titled "View in Lewiston Narrows," a collodion gelatin photograph published by J.M. McCanless, Asheville, North Carolina showing a Conestoga wagon and a Western Union Telegraph Office sign, a gelatin silver print showing the Postal Telegraph Company and Commercial Cable Company building in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and two postcards, one showing a boxcar and titled "First Telegraph Office in Fort Pierce, S. Dak.," the other titled "Telegraph Office and partial view of Front St., Shenandoah, Va." Provenance: From the Collection of Jay Gaynor.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-02-24
