SOUTHERN SNAPSHOT PHOTO ALBUM 1913-1914

Item #1548

This compact 7 ¼” x 5 ⅝” photo album, dating to the years 1913–1914, contains 67 silver gelatin snapshots mounted on 18 leaves (35 pages), with 8 additional leaves left blank. A small inserted note reads: “1913–1914 (mostly), taken by grandpa.” The album remains in good condition, its pages holding the work of a devoted amateur photographer documenting travels across the South and Midwest in the years just before the First World War.

The compiler’s journey is a richly varied one: from Austin, Texas to the Colorado River, across to Montgomery, Alabama, Alexandria, Louisiana, and Pascagoula, Mississippi, further into Hackley, Mississippi, northward to Merrill, Wisconsin, and eastward to Mt. Gilead, Ohio.

The photographs capture a remarkable array of regional architecture and infrastructure—courthouses, state capitols, hotels, bridges, dams, trains, and depots—together with candid street-level scenes of small-town America. Natural landscapes are equally prominent: river views, flooded stretches of the Red River, wooded hillsides, logging operations, and farms in cultivation. The presence of horse-drawn buggies, riverside industry, and early 20th-century main streets further roots this album in its historical moment.

A rare vernacular photographic record of Southern and Midwestern travel during the 1910s, blending infrastructure, landscape, and social history.

Price: $300.00