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Wed, Jun 26, 2019 11:30AM EDT
Lot 191

Collection of 1930s?40s Screen Actors Publicity / Fan Photographs.

Estimate: $400 - $600

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Collection of 1930s?40s Screen Actors Publicity / Fan Photographs. Silver print portraits of over 50 actors, collected between about 1936?40 by Isabel Baumgartner, of Baldwin, NY, many with personal inscriptions to her, some signed secretarially or stamped, and bearing Baumgartner?s date notations on the versos. Sizes generally 5 x 7?, 7 x 9?, or 8 x 10?. Subjects include Barton Maclane, Tom Keene, Edgar Bergen, Henry Fonda, Richard Dix, Johnny Weissmuller, John Howard, Maurice Murphy, Dick Cromwell, Kent Taylor, Robert Kent, Donald Briggs, Dick Purcell, Craig Reynolds, Gordon Jones, Chester Morris, Jon Hall, Allan Jenkins, Paul Douglas, Rudy Vallee, Buddy Ebsen, Cornel Wilde, Gary Cooper (2), Preston Foster, and others. Includes some child actors. Should be seen.