4881 - 5001 FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
= Miners and construction workers in the New Cascade Tunnel near Berne, Washington, which replaced the earlier Cascade Tunnel in January 1929 and is currently the longest railroad tunnel in the United States.
"Indian encampment on Spokane River". Press photograph, gelatin silverprint, 23,5x17 cm., identified in ms. on verso.
- Upper and lower margin unevenly trimmed.
= Teepees set up in Glover Stadium in Spokane, Washington during the National Indian Congress in 1925.
ADDED: 11 other press photos, i.a. Middlesbrough dock gates under repair/ being brought into the dock (1933, 2x) and a factory worker in the Vereinigte Stahlwerke plant in Dortmund (±1930).
= From the collection of Atlas J. van Eck.
= Mainly lively group photos taken during dinners or fraternity evenings of i.a. the Amsterdamsch Studentencorps and P.A.L.L.A.S. Also incl. a photograph showing prince Hendrik van Mecklenburg-Schwerin among the students.
- Retouched in upper right corner; a few rubbed spots in lower part.
Idem. (Interior of the Forth Goods Yard in Newcastle). Gelatine silver print, ±1920, 23,7x19,2 cm., "Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth & Co. Ld. No. 211" in lower margin, mounted. - AND 8 others, i.a. "Droge-dokdeur te Antwerpen gansch in Karri en Jarrah"/ "Nieuwe rolbrug te Antwerpen met Karri-blokken sedert vier jaar belegd" (two mounted albumen prints, ±1920).
- Occas. sl frayed; mostly fine.
= Comprises i.a. a photograph of an "Israëlitische Vleeschhal" (w. stamp "Fotobureau J. van Dijk" on verso), a large semi-detached house by K.P.C. de Bazel and the Middelbare Technische School in Groningen.
ADDED: ±20 small photographs of glass (designs) by K.P.C. DE BAZEL.
= Showing i.a. the aircraft's transport to Pladjoe, its assembly, commissioning ceremony and flight on/ near the airfield of Palembang.
= I.a. British, French, German and American airplanes; incl. zeppelins, aircraft carriers and a few photos of airmen.
WITH: ±400 (col.) (real photograph) picture postcards of aircraft (±1970-1990, i.a. by Flight International (130x)). - AND WITH: ±75 brochures, folders and other small (promotional) publications.
= I.a. by Aeroflot (9x); Airspeed ("Ambassador", "Consul"); AVRO ("Shackleton", "Anson", "Athena", "Lancastrian"); Braniff ("Fastback"); Bristol ("Brabazon"); General Electric (J79); Percival ("Proctor V", "Prentice", "Prince"); Republic Aviation ("F-84 Thunderjet"); Saab (i.a. "Safir", "Scandia"); KLM (3x) and Rijksluchtvaartdienst (2x).
ADDED: 8 publications on aviation, i.a. B. LAUFER, The Prehistory of Aviation (Chicago, 1928, plates, orig. wr.); L. SAZERAC DE FORGE, La Conquête de l'Air (Paris/ Nancy, 1907, ills., fold. table, contemp. giltlettered hcl.) and W. DE FONVIELLE, Adventures in the Air. Engl. transl. J.S. Keltie (London, 1877, woodengr. plates/ ills., contemp. (soiled/ dam.) cl., a.e.g.).
= Dreutel was Blanca's dog. = Provenance: the collection on Eli Content.
- Some very vague soiling in lower right corner.
Idem. "Giullia". Gelatin silver print, 30x30 cm., signed "Paul Blanca", titled, dated "2013(?)", "For Giullia" and "A.P." in silver pen.
- One photograph w. some vague stains. = Part of a larger series.
= From a rare large series showing nudes of the photographer's mother. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LI.