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Lot 253
Sale 5856 - Photographs & Photobooks
Sep 11, 2019
9:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$500 -
700
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$375
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Lot Description
[WORLD WAR II] GROUP OF 85 PHOTOS OF WWII-ERA AIRPLANE PRODUCTION
1942–43. Various credit stamps and captions printed on versos. Gelatin silver prints.
ImageS: 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. (19.7 x 24.1cm) each.
Sheets: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4cm) each.
Eighty-five press photographs, mostly from Pratt & Whitney Company and Lockheed, showing men and women engaged in wartime airplane production. Some taken under the auspices of the Office of Emergency Management (O.E.M.). Most photographs are credited to (Andreas) Feininger, (Alfred T.) Palmer, (David) Bransby, and (Alexander) Liberman. A few are credited as "Official British Photo" from the Office of War Information (OWI).