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Lot 32 · Photographs

Broadcast Transmitting Tubes

Margaret Bourke-white

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Estimate
$5,000–$7,000 hammer
Result
Performance
Sale
Sotheby's — Photographs, New York · 26 April 2007
Record ID
TB-2026-3614975
Record
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Margaret Bourke-white, Broadcast Transmitting Tubes. Sotheby's, 26 Apr 2007, lot 32. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3614975.

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Margaret Bourke-white, Broadcast Transmitting Tubes. Sotheby's, 26 Apr 2007, lot 32. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3614975.

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