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.....
Peoria, Illinois: 1930s-40s. Large black striped album binding titled "Exquisitely", with decorative image of a stag pasted to front cover, 46 photographs, several pieces of ephemera, and numeros pictorial clippings. The album was assembled by Gene Casad, window trimmer in the display department at the Block and Kuhl Co department.....
The Florida Club. Photograph measuring 3.5 x 2.25", on larger mount with "St. Augustine Views by the Florida Club" printed on the back. A rare photo of the Cathedral Basilica St. Augustine. An old newspaper clipping has been pasted over part of the image to serve as a caption. Toning.....
Circa 1860s. Original Photographs measuring 4 x 2.75", showing the General in uniform. Toning and foxing to image and mount.
Cleveland, Ohio: 1930s. Scrapbook measuring 11.5 x 8", contianing approx 18 ephemeral items and 4 photos, many laid in, some pasted in, plus many newspaper clippings. Includes signed programs, company correspondence, broadsides, and photos of costumed performers (two measuring 8 x 10"). A collection of programs, broadsides, and typescripts relate.....
[Watertown, NY]: F.E. Slater, 1900. Collection of 17 photographs, including 13 cyanotypes, each measuring approximately 8 x 6", mounted on boards measuring approximately 12.5 x 10". The photographs are signed and numbered in the negatives by F.E. Slater, a photographer active in Watertown, NY. The images document the construction of.....
Baltimore: Circa 1970. Collection of 19 black and white photos measuring 8 x 10" each, mainly on sticky album leaves (a couple loose), a few captioned on leaves. The images depicting shipbuilding at the Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock Company in Baltimore, including a few photos of massive ships operated by.....
Various Places: 1947-1982. Collection of photos, letters and ephemera belonging to Air Captain J. Gen Genovese, author of "We Flew Without Guns," a popular account about his aviation career which included pioneering the route over the Himalayas between China and India after being hired by General Chiang Kai Shek. These.....
Kansas: [1915]. Seven real photo postcards, each measuring 6 x 3.5", all captioned in pencil on the backs. The captions read: “guard at prison”, “kitchen at prison”, “prisoner at drill”, “prison [exterior shot]”, “prison [exterior shot]”, “prison bathroom” and “prison entrance”. The entrance depicted is that of the United States.....
Iowa: 1890s to 1900s. Seven cabinet cards, each measuring 6.5 x 4.25", five bearing photographers' stamps from Marshalltown and Des Moines, Iowa, all depicting the Iowa Soldiers' Home in Marshaltown, IA, founded in 1887 to care for Civil War Veterans. Four of the cabinet cards are photographs of paintings of.....
Massachussets: 1896-1898. Scrapbook measuring 9.5 x 6.5", consisting of a repurposed Tufts College "Brown and Blue" yearbook from 1896, full of photographs and ephemera belonging to Anson Merrill Titus, a Tufts graduate with the 1898 class. Includes a total of 24 photographs, including 19 cyanotypes, four albumen prints, and one.....
Florida: Circa 1900. Photo album binding measuring 7.5 x 6", containing 41 photos measuring 3.5 x 3.5". Mainly silver prints as well as a couple of albumen photos. The images show the recreational exploits of a group of men on a lake in Florida--boating, fishing on their craft "wampus," hunting.....
Livington, Montana: 1906-1908. Album binding of black cloth measuring 11 x 7.25", containing 80 photographs, with the first few pages captioned. The images depict the town of Livingston, Montana and the surrounding area. Located along the Yellowstone River, Livingston and its train station served as the first gateway to Yellowstone.....
Fremont, Ohio: C.P. Haas, 1894. Four mounted albumen print photographs, each measuring 8.5 x 6.5", on slightly larger card mounts. Printed below the images is the text: ""FREMONT CYCLING AND ATHLETIC CLUB AMATEUR MINSTRELS. MARCH 8, 1894 / PHOTOGRAPHED BY C.P. HAAS." The images depict a blackface minstrel performance on.....
Tintype measuring 5 x 6.75". Some wear, some paper adhered to lower right corner.
[Dedham, Massachusetts]: Circa 1920. Photo album binding measuring 7.5 x 5", containing 45 pasted in photographs, some captioned. Includes a series of photos of Girl Scouts camping in tents, with their nicknames handwritten on the margins. Also identified is Captain Moody. There are also family photos and miscellaneous boating and.....
Montclair, New Jersey: Circa 1900. Albumen photograph measuring 8 x 6.5", on a larger mount. The image depicts a high school baseball team wearing uniforms initialed "M.M.A". Someone has written in blue ink "Montclair Military Academy?" on the back of the photograph. A real photo postcard from the same period.....
Circa 1910s-20s. Original photograph measuring 7.5 x 5.5", on larger mount, depicting workers in front of the Carnegie Ice Co. and Carnegie Ice Cream Co. building. Records indicate that such a company existed in Carnegie, Oklahoma, though we cannot identify the location of this building definitively. Image in excellent condition.....
United Kingdom: 1950-1955. 1) String tied album binding measuring 6.75 x 4.5:, containing 35 photographs, with handwritten title on front cover as well as a manuscript title page reading "The Lady Baden Powell G.B.E. World Chief Guide At Home in Hampton Court Palace June 6th and 11th 1954," signed to.....
1890. A collection of eighteen albumen photographs and CDVs, circa 1890, pasted to album leaves. Subject matter includes landmarks mostly in Pakistan (cities of Quetta, Karachi, Abbottabad, Jacobabad) while two photographs depict the well at Cawnpore, India. The album probably belonged to the military officer depicted in the cdvs in.....
1912. Paper album binding measuring 12 x 10", containing 72 pasted in black and white photos, several images captioned. Inscribed to front cover "Elizabeth Lutz," the album contains images of a young group of men and women hanging out, horseback riding, and hiking in and around Estes Park, Colorado, plus.....
Maryland: 1918-1931. Black album binding measuring 8 x 5.5" containing 214 photos, heavily annotated in the margins, mainly showing life at "Caldicot" an estate in Harford Country maryland, including photos of African American children (possibly kids of the local help) riding horses and playing with white children, images of girl.....
Brazil: 1950s. Wooden souvenir photo album binding measuring 17 x 11.5", containing 127 images taken by an employee of the Brazil branch of the Firestone tire company. The majority of the images contain detailed captions on the backs. Begins with images of the Firestone headquarters in Sao Paulo and views.....
Ontario, Canada: 1954-1957. Red faux leather album binding, string tied, measuring 14 x 11", containing 225 photographs, all placed into photo corners, most captioned on the backs with dates and identifications of the people shown. The album belonged to a young woman named Anne and documents her time as a......
Syracuse, New York: 1956-1962. A collection of 160 black and white photographs, with 95 photos measuring 8 x 10” (many stamped “Official Photo U.S. Air Force” on the backs), one photo measuring 7 x 6”, and 64 photos measuring 3 x 3.5” to 4.5 x 6.5”. The photos belonged to.....