Chicago: 1890s. Album binding of quarter leather with black cloth measuring 10 x 8", titled in gilt to front cover "Kenwood Club No. 10," containing 10 linen backed albumen photographs, each measuring 9.25 x 7.5". Damp staining and foxing to photos, affecting images, some more than others, covers stained, front cover and first two (blank) leaves detached, lacking spine covering. A collection of exterior and interior views taken by Charles Allceier (according to stamps on the back) circa 1890s. The images show the Kenwood Club in Chicago, which operated between 1884 and 1905. According to chicagology.com, "Late in 1883, Messrs. E. A. Potter, J. H. Long, J. P. Taylor, John Dunn, G. Steever, and several other gentlemen, residents of Kenwood, came together for the purpose of discussing the feasibility of establishing a social and family club in that beautiful suburb of Chicago. From this meeting resulted the present Kenwood Club, the organization of which was perfected in February. 1884. In June of the same year the Club took possessisn of the house on Forty-seventh Street, near Lake Avenue, which was formerly the residence of Norman B. Judd, Esq. To this house, a two story and basement frame building, a large addition. 40×75 feet, was made in the fall of 1886. In the basement are situated the bowling alley, the dining room and the kitchens. On the first floor are the hall, the office, the reception room, and a splendid dancing hall which occupies the whole of the addition. The second floor is taken up by the card rooms, the billiard room, the reading room, the library, and ladies’ and gentlemen’s dressing rooms." Item #9430

Price: $150.00