SAGUENAY RIVER AND GASPÉ PENINSULA APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB EXCURSION PHOTO ALBUM, QUEBEC, 1929

Item #1665

Oblong string-tied photograph album, 13 x 10 1/4 inches, containing 79 mounted sepia photographs on 14 black paper leaves. Photographs range from approx. 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches to 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches, secured with corner mounts. A shortened introductory leaf is hand-captioned: “Saguenay River and Gaspé Peninsula / Appalachian Mountain Club Excursion / Sept. 5-15 1929.”

A handsome interwar travel album documenting a September 1929 Appalachian Mountain Club excursion through Quebec, with identified views of Murray Bay / La Malbaie, Mt. Trinity, the Saguenay River, Tadoussac, Gaspé, and Percé. The album appears to follow the group’s route from the Saguenay region and the St. Lawrence toward the Gaspé Peninsula, combining scenic, architectural, and social views of the excursion.

The photographs show members of the party hiking, resting on rocky ledges, taking in views, lounging aboard ship, being rowed between shore and steamer, and gathering outdoors. The landscape content is especially strong, with waterfalls, beaches, cliffs, mountains, river views, and several striking views of Percé and its coastal rock formations. Local and architectural subjects include churches, monuments, village streets, cottages, barns, hotels, and rural scenes. One notable image shows the excursion party on the porch of Baker’s Hotel in Gaspé, while other images capture Tadoussac, Mt. Trinity, Murray Bay, and ship-to-shore travel on the Saguenay/St. Lawrence route.

The album offers a well-identified record of organized outdoor and scenic tourism in Quebec just before the Depression, with good Appalachian Mountain Club association and strong visual documentation of the Saguenay and Gaspé regions. Covers show rubbing, edge wear, corner loss, and wear around the binding holes; contents remain intact, with some fading to the photographs, as typical, but the images are generally clear and evocative.

Price: $250.00