6" x 8" press photo, which shows children with meals in pails. The attached description reads: "Innocent victims in mill strike - New Bedford, mass.. three little pawns in the battle being waged between striking mill works of this city and their employers. While the parents are picketing or.....
There are 45 photos in this 7.25” x 11” photo album that is from around 1900. Some of the photos are identified on the photo as being from Seaside Heights, NJ, and the album seems to show the Yacht Club and yacht races. There is also a slip of paper.....
5.75” x 8” photo album which belonged to an African American woman, who appears to have attended Spelman Seminary (later college) in 1922. From a newspaper clipping attached to the back, inside cover, and a couple of photos, I believe that this was put together by Beatrice Harris, who later.....
This delightful 4 x 8” autograph book features a fine black hardcover with embossed frame design around a gilded image of a book, quill, and ink, with “Autograph” written above the illustration. The edges of the pages are also gilded. This Civil War-era book appears to have belonged to S......
This little black string-bound photo album measures 11.25 x 7.25” and, as the first page announces, contains “Pictures Taken and edited by Frederick H. Steadman Jr.” Frederick appears to have been quite a young man who enjoyed taking photos of himself, friends, family, and pets. From 1929 to 1932. The.....
8.25 x 6” green string-bound album. In yellow on the front cover reads: “To-Bobby, From-Charles & Tess” with flowery star symbols painted on. The first page of the album features a delightful little illustration of the moon or sun against a river in the forest, and it says that this.....
Three 6.75" x 9.75" photo album pages with eight 2.375" x 3.125" snapshots showing a partial eclipse of the sun in the summer of 1932. Writing on the pages, but the place these were taken from is unknown. In good overall condition.
4.25" x 6.5" cabinet card photo of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. The photo is dated 1893 and credited to W&D Downey, London. Some old tape on the verso, else in good condition.
5" x 7" photo slid into a 7" x 9" matted, which is identified on the verso as a photo by the Kolb Brothers, taken in Grand Canyon in Arizona. The photo shows a mule train headed down and it is dated within the negative as July 2, '23. There.....
11.25 x 7.25” brown string-bound album with a bust of a Native American embossed on the front cover along with a vase of flowers. Contains 24 photos, including cyanotypes, showing a family and scenes from the mining district in Leadville, Colorado. The album dates to around the 1890s, though there.....
7.5 x 4.75” small black photo album with “Photographs” on the cover in gold and a worn spine. Contains around 148 black and white photos from 1910 to 1912 which largely show a group of young women, their chaperones, and some young men as they enjoy areas including Gales Ferry.....
Circa 1890s, 8 x 10.25” fabric-covered Victorian photo album with worn red velvet and a metal clasp. The outer spine is essentially gone, and the front cover is detached, but within lies a well-preserved treasure trove of dried seaweed samples which have been artfully arranged on cards inserted into pockets.....
10.75 x 13.5” album with a black cover and tan suede spine and corners. In the middle of the front cover is the name M. L. Emerson. This 19th century album is a flower herbarium containing over 35 pages of specimens. About two thirds are identified. Those that are labeled.....
9 x 11” black photo album with “Amateur Photographs” debossed on the front cover. The album contains around 72 black and white photos and real photo postcards from Yorktown, Virginia from around 1908 to 1914. A note on the inside front cover identifies the little girl shown in many of.....
7.75 x 5.5” small brown suede photo album from circa 1910, with an illustration of a teepee on the front cover. The first page of the album reads “Fort Bayard, New Mexico” and what follows are 45 black and white photos. The first couple of photos show the nurses quarters.....
11.25 x 7.5” brown string-bound photo album with “Photographs” in a gold oval and a fireplace embossed on the front cover. The inside front cover reads: “Property of Carlton J. Higginbotham, Willoughby, Ohio.” There’s also a note taped to the inside cover about Carl’s mother, a governess, and his father.....
11" x 7.25” photo album from the 1920s/1930s, which is missing its front cover. Contains over 40 black and white photos of people enjoying time at the Rockport Coast Guard Station and Straitsmouth Inn in Rockport, Massachusetts. Most of the photos are of men and women at the beach, including.....
11.5 x 7.25” black string-bound photo album with “Photographs” embossed on the front cover. Contains around 400 black and white photos of a group of friends in New York from 1919 to 1924. Photographs measure between 1.5 x 1.75” and 5 x 6” and are held to the pages with.....
13.5 x 10” worn black photo album filled with 25 black and white photos taken by Francis Marion Steele, a photographer whose main subjects included farm-work in Kansas Twenty-two photos measure 9.25 x 7.25," and three are snapshots measuring 5.5” x 3.5.” The photographs are pasted in, and have wear.....
7 x 5.5” staple-bound album containing 22 black and white photos of nurses in Presidio, San Francisco, California from around 1910. The nurses frequently visited areas around Golden Gate Park, including ruins on Strawberry Hill, visiting the shore of the bay, and walking dogs in the area. The nurses appear.....
12.25 x 7.75” coverless string-bound photo album from around 1927 to 1940. The first page features a large color photo of the jungle which includes penciled annotation that identifies the location as Lanoto, an extinct volcano crater in Samoa. The album contains around 133 black and white photos and photo.....
11.5 x 7.5” brown leather string-bound album with a crocodile skin pattern and “Photographs” on the cover in gold, along with gold floral patterns and the name “L. Austin Grey”. Contains over 140 black and white snapshots featuring Grey and his friends, who were all in the Army in what.....
8.5 x 11.5” black string-bound album with “Scrap Book” in gold on the cover and an embossed windmill. The inside front cover reads: “Bread Loaf 1936. Marion E. Manns.” The scrapbook is full of around 30 black and white photos of famous authors that Marion presumably encountered at Bread Loaf.....
7” x 11” suede bound photo album showing “The Kiss of the Oceans,” along with “Photo-Log, U.S. Navy, Panama” on the front cover. The first photo shown in the album is a 5” x 8” photo of the USS Dutchess. The next photo is the same size and is identified.....
9.5" x 11.25" scrapbook with rigid covers that opens on both sides, sort of like an accordion. In gilded letters on the cover, it says "Kindergarten Work." This circa 1920s scrapbook, appears to be inspired by Friedrich Froebel. Most of the cut out and stitched artwork is a bit sophisticated.....