Kaaterskill Books

Warnecke, Harry and Crantson, Robert F.

[Photograph]. Sailing Delayed. Cause: War.

New York: New York Daily News, 1939. Framed size: 24 x 16 1/2 inches; image 24 x 16 inches. Mahogany frame. Tears to upper right and lower left not affecting the ship images, dampstain to upper corners not noticeable on the image. Quite good in a nice frame with a few scratches. Item #38552

Double page spread in color from The Sunday News, November 5, 1939 (pp. 12-13) of the Aquitania, Queen Mary, Normandie, and Ile de France tied up at their North River piers from 51st St. to 48th St., afraid to dare the sub-infested North Atlantic. A few days later the British 45,000 ton Aquitania, masked in wartime gray, as is the Queen Mary- crept away from pier and ran the gantlet to England successfully...." Harry Warnecke (1900-1984) and Robert F. Cranston were commercial photographers at the New York Daily News. Little is known of Cranston who was active from about 1937 until 1949, but Warnecke was a "pioneering photographer...[who]... created brilliant, eye-popping color portraits for the newspaper’s Sunday News magazine. Employing a special one-shot camera of his own design, Warnecke began producing color images for the Daily News in the 1930s by utilizing the technically demanding tricolor carbro process—the first practical method for color photography. Over the next three decades, Warnecke and his team photographed hundreds of people, from popular film stars and athletes to military leaders and government officials," (Smithsonian).

Price: $150.00