Price: $750.00
SKU: 102890
MEDIUM: Drawings - graphite,
DATE: 1885.
EDITION SIZE: Paper size 6 x 8 3/4" (15.2 x 22.3 cm).
DESCRIPTION: Title continues, "... 11-15 o'clock a.m. Oct. 10, 1885." Initialed and dated in the lower right corner. Title on second drawing "Flood Rocks - just after the explosion, from Astoria - 11-15 o'clock a.m., Oct. 10, 1885." "Electric Lightgate Hellgate, from Flood Rocks. - Removed 1889." This lighthouse was on Hallot's point. Initialed and dated in the lower right corner. <BR><BR> "On October 10, 1885, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers detonated Flood Rock, a large rock formation in the East River's Hell Gate channel, as part of a project to improve navigation. This was one of the largest man-made explosions before the atomic age and was intended to remove a major obstacle to shipping in the busy waterway." - Google AI <BR><BR> The series of three drawings is on paper that had been (or has) folded down the center.
ADDITIONAL INFO: Series of three drawings. Two horizontal and one vertical. The paper size is the same for all of the drawings.
CONDITION: Overall good condition.
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