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Description:
Eleven Photographs of Telegraph Linemen, Kingston, New York, Canon City, Colorado, and other unidentified places, 19th and early 20th century, including four sixth-plate studio tintype photographs of linemen with their tools, one with two linemen on a pole and a sixteenth-plate tintype photograph of two linemen on a pole; three albumen cabinet cards of a crew of men installing poles, a lineman in a studio pose and a group of seven linemen on a pole; a collodion gelatin print of three linemen photographed in a studio; and two gelatin silver print photographs, one with linemen on a horse-drawn wagon, the other with a lineman on a pole.
Provenance: From the collection of Jay Gaynor.
Estimate $300-500
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