lazarnick nathan (3 risultati)

Condizione: Fine. - sc The 7-3/4 inch high by 9-7/8 inch wide black & white glossy photograph playfully depicts what can best be called a fashion still life. The image depicts a lone female mannequin in a fashionable store, attired in shorts and a slick raincoat, among an army of display coat racks attired in men's jackets. The photographer's name and address are stamped in blue on the verso with editorial annotations also penciled on the verso. Near fine. This wonderful image reminds one of the Hollywood musicals of the 1940's which often featured dance and song numbers starring the female lead centered in the front row, escorted by an army of suavely attired male dancers lined in columns behind her at the opening of the dance number.

4to. [67 leaves (unnumbered, or separately numbered in sections), including 38 silver gelatin photographs, a couple are reproductions of documents, nearly all are linen-backed, some mounted on stubs at gutter margin, sized from 8 x 10 in. up to 8.5 x 11 in., 4 technical drawing blueprints for engine, 2 smaller photos inserted in mylar pockets, Supplementary Stock Issue announcement, dittoed TLS on blue-tinted letterhead for the Beadon Service Inc. dealership indicating 5 sales, assorted other ephemera, including dittoed TLS announcements for Smith Motor Truck Corp. dated 1917. Flexible black calf 3-ring binder, gilt lettering stamped on front cover (wear, rubbing, front hinge split, interior thumbing, occasional dustsoiling), still VG exemplar, w/ signed introduction by Victor W. Page; together with two mounted silver gelatin photographs sized 8 x 10 on 11.5 x 13.5 in. studio mounts, w/ embossed photographer's imprint in lower right corner depicting future Zollinger Motors Co. dealership locations, w/ billboards for Dodge Bros. and Buick (minor edgewear, some minor warping), still VG bright images. An historically important survivor dealership sales brochure and album for the short-lived Victor W. Page Motors Corp. developed and built with the patented innovations of Victor W. Page (1885-1947), a pioneering automotive and aeronautical specialist and inventor. Following World War I, Page left his position as the chief Aeronautical Engineering Officer in France to found the Victor W. Page Motors Corp. intended to produce over 300,000 automobiles a year, including the Aero-Type Four featuring his patented air-cooled motor, suspension system, chassis, and cutaway seats. By January, 1922 he was able to exhibit at the New York Auto Show with original photographs included in this dealership album of two couple sedans, two convertible speedsters, a display chassis, and a body for the Aero-Type Four. The automobiles targeted the $ 1250- $ 1750 price range, and featured steel dixc wheels, contoured shell, hood and fenders built with liberal amounts of aluminum.The first 15 automobiles were built in a Liberty Engine Factory including the ground-breaking 30 horsepower 4-cylinder engine, featured his patented tilted steering wheel system, and disc brakes. The body and chassis were built in Farmingdale, MA and the engines were assembled in New York for an eventual production of just 15 cars, and none survived after the liquidation auction in 1927. Page had prior experience with automobiles, and had actually built 25 total cars with his earlier company, the Page Motor Vehicle Co. of Providence, RI, which closed at the entry of the U.S. into World War I. Page in his second company, as shown here intended a huge stock offering, but unfortunately trusted the less than scrupulous grifter Charles Beadon to sell the stock, whose salesmen ended up embezzling all dividends and profits. Some of the eary investors traveled to the Stamford, CT plant to get their money back, and Beadon sued him. After years of litigation, the company was dissolved and all properties, equipment and assets sold off. Unfortunately, none of the Victor W. Page automobiles survive, and this cataloguer could find no similar surviving piece of sales literature, or photographs as this item. Lazarnick (1879-1955) was a pioneering automotive photographer whose images captured the development of motor vehicles form the early 1900's to the late 1920's, and covered many of the Vanderbilt Cup Races, photographed the presidential campaigns of Taft, McKinley & Roosevelt, as well as capturing such notables as Steinmetz, Edison, Oldfield, and Rickenbacker. See: Frank C. Derato, Victor W. Page, Automotive and Aviation Pioneer (1991); John Brockmann, Victor W. Page's Early Twentieth-Century Automotive and Aviation Books: "Practical Books for Practical Men," Jounral of Business and Technical Communication, Vol. 10, No. 3 (July, 1996), pp. 285-305; Howard Kroplick, Nathan Lazarnick: The Pioneer of Automotive Photography, Vanderbilt Cup Races, March 9, 2013.

Condizione: Fine. - sc Each of these 2 photographs measures 9-1/2 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide. The images depict a man attired in fashionable golf fashion over a white shirt with bow tie. Depicted standing in a formal portrait pose in one image, he is shown in full swing in the other. The photographer's name and address "N. Lazarnick / Photographic Illustrations / 230 Park Avenue." are stamped in blue on the verso of each photograph. Near fine.