Highlights Include 19^th Century Panoramas, Documentary Images, and Works by 20^th Century Master Photographers New York-Swann Galleries' Thursday, October 19 auction of Important 19^th & 20^th Century Photographs offers a wide array of images, from early western panoramic views to classic images by latter 20^th century photographers. Among the auction's earliest highlights are Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, with 61 gold-toned albumen prints from several Civil War battles by George N. Barnard, 1865 (estimate: $20,000 to $30,000); Eadweard Muybridge's spectacular 11-part panorama of San Francisco that provides one of the most precise visual records of pre-earthquake San Francisco still in existence, 1877 ($20,000 to $25,000); as well as 102 plates from Muybridge's Animal Locomotion, with a self-portrait, male and female nude studies, and many photographs of animals, 1887 ($20,000 to $30,000). A selection of albums with exotic views includes an ornately bound album containing 100 of Kusakabe Kimbei's delicately hand-tinted photographs of Japan, 1880s ($10,000 to $15,000); Francis Frith's Sinai and Palestine, with 37 richly toned albumen prints ($5,000 to $7,500); a choice group of seven photographs of Brazil by Marc Ferrez, 1870s-90s ($5,000 to $7,500); and 80 images of China and India, 1890s ($2,000 to $3,000). From the early 20^th century are albums such as Volume 13 of Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian, with 36 plates of Native American portraits, Boston, 1923 ($15,000 to $25,000); and a portfolio containing 25 original photographs by William Mortensen, circa 1933 ($20,000 to $25,000). Documentary highlights from the 20^th century include Lewis W. Hine's Empire State Building, worker signaling on high beam, silver print, 1930 ($10,000 to $15,000); Margaret Bourke-White's Factory Worker, Aluminum Company of America, warm-toned silver print, 1930 ($8,000 to $12,000); Weegee's Their First Murder, ferrotyped silver print, circa 1936 ($10,000 to $15,000); several Berenice Abbott views of New York City including Murray Hill Hotel: Spiral, silver print, 1935, printed 1982 ($5,000 to $7,500); and selections from the New York Times photo archive. Featured Modernist works include stunning images by Frantisek Drtikol, such as Female study (model with snake bracelet), pigment print, circa 1925 ($15,000 to $25,000), and Model posing with geometric forms, silver print, circa 1926 ($10,000 to $15,000); André Kertész's Melancholic Tulip, silver print, 1939, printed late 1970s ($5,000 to $7,500); and Josef Sudek's Still life with floating rose petal, early 1960s ($12,000 to $18,000). Among many fine portraits are Man Ray's Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, silver print, 1922 ($7,000 to $10,000); Irving Penn's John Marin, platinum-palladium print 1947, printed 1977 ($10,000 to $15,000); Yousuf Karsh's Albert Einstein, silver print, 1948, printed 1980s ($6,000 to $9,000); Harry Callahan's Bob Fine, silver print, 1952, printed 1970s ($9,000 to $12,000), Bert Stern's images of Marilyn Monroe in The Last Sitting, with 10 original photographs. New York, 1962 ($7,000 to $10,000); Mary Ellen Mark's Mother Teresa, Calcutta, silver print, 1980 ($1,000 to $1,500); and Annie Leibovitz's look at Steve Martin, Beverly Hills, cibachrome print, 1981 ($5,000 to $7,500). Also from the late 20^th century are David Heath's Erin Freed, 1963, printed 1965 ($6,000 to $9,000); Henri Cartier-Bresson's Brie, France, silver print, 1968, printed 1980s ($9,000 to $12,000); Stephen Shore's U.S. 10, Post Falls, Idaho, chromogenic print, 1974 ($4,000 to $5,000); Eliot Porter's In Wilderness, portfolio with 10 dye transfer prints, 1981($9,000 to $12,000); and Helmut Newton's Another World...of Dressing, chromogenic print, 1983 ($3,000 to $4,500).