NEW YORK, NY.- The top lots at Swann Galleries’ October 19 auction of Fine Photographs & Select Photobooks were scarce or unique photographic albums and portfolios that captured cultures on the brink of extinction. Adam Clark Vroman’s A Trip to Snake Dance, Moqui-Indian-towns, and Petrified Forests of Arizona, an album with 76 platinum print photographs of southwestern Native American culture, 1895, sold for a record $48,000. The album was once owned by Senator Barry Goldwater. Another record-setting album was Roman Vishniac’s portfolio The Vanished World, complete with 12 silver print photographs of Jews living in Poland from 1936 to 1938. The album, which was printed in an edition of 50 in 1977, brought $43,200. There was also a suite of 29 portraits of Native Americans by Alexander Gardner, Chas. Bell and others from the U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories, late 1860s to early 1870s, $28,800; a c