Opening: $65 Hammer Price: $65 SOLD Skylight Gallery 30 April 2010

Oversize card-mounted albumen print of the Canisteo, NY flood of 1889. With letterpress identification and title on the card, "A. B. Stebbins, Photographer, Canisteo, N.Y. / Views of Canisteo's Great Flood, June 1, 1889." The card, probably trimmed, measures 5.5 x 7 inches (14x18 cm).   ( Inventory# ic602 )

An great image showing a building whose interior and structure has been revealed to us in cross-section by a collapsing wall, a result of the flood whose waters still engulf it.

Image and card have dirt and stains.

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