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Auction archive: Lot number 2

Four early Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite National Park, menus with Ansel Adams photographs

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$120
Auction archive: Lot number 2

Four early Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite National Park, menus with Ansel Adams photographs

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$120
Beschreibung:

Title: Four early Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite National Park, menus with Ansel Adams photographs Author: Place: Publisher: Date: 1937-1938 Description: Dinner menu, Aug. 22, 1937. With front cover photograph, “Glacier Point”, an uncommon image, showing three riders on horseback in the foreground. Text note on verso: "Additional Copies of this menu for mailing may be secured from the dining room manager. Photograph on the cover is by Ansel Adams Original prints of Mr. Adams work are on sale in the Gift Shop." 5.5 x 8”, 3pp. The earliest Adams Ahwahnee menu we have seen. Three later menus, Aug. 16-17, 1938 (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner) with front cover Adams photographs (“At the Badger Pass Ski Field”, “The Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove of Big Trees””, and “Nevada Fall”) T 5.5 x 8.5”, 3pp. Lot Amendments Condition: First menu worn, with three heavy dents on photograph and menu pages, not penetrating papers; others with glue residue on second blank pages, some foxing and a vertical crease to text pages of the Lunch menu. Very good. Item number: 271709

Auction archive: Lot number 2
Auction:
Datum:
16 Jun 2016
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Four early Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite National Park, menus with Ansel Adams photographs Author: Place: Publisher: Date: 1937-1938 Description: Dinner menu, Aug. 22, 1937. With front cover photograph, “Glacier Point”, an uncommon image, showing three riders on horseback in the foreground. Text note on verso: "Additional Copies of this menu for mailing may be secured from the dining room manager. Photograph on the cover is by Ansel Adams Original prints of Mr. Adams work are on sale in the Gift Shop." 5.5 x 8”, 3pp. The earliest Adams Ahwahnee menu we have seen. Three later menus, Aug. 16-17, 1938 (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner) with front cover Adams photographs (“At the Badger Pass Ski Field”, “The Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove of Big Trees””, and “Nevada Fall”) T 5.5 x 8.5”, 3pp. Lot Amendments Condition: First menu worn, with three heavy dents on photograph and menu pages, not penetrating papers; others with glue residue on second blank pages, some foxing and a vertical crease to text pages of the Lunch menu. Very good. Item number: 271709

Auction archive: Lot number 2
Auction:
Datum:
16 Jun 2016
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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