NEBRASKA MEDICAL HOSPITAL SANITARIUM & MIDWEST TRAVEL EARLY 1900s - 1920s PHOTO ALBUM

Item #582

12.75 x 7.5” photo album with a black cloth covered rigid covers. On the inside front cover is stamped: “Chas. A. Skinner, R.N. Sanitarium College View, Nebr. Portrait and View Artist. Views of Buildings, Groups, Etc.” As this suggests, the album contains around 64 black and white photos of patients at the sanitarium from c. 1910s to the mid 1920s. There are photos of patients and nurses, as well as trips taken to Michigan, Niagara Falls, Illinois, Glacier Lake, and Boulder Canyon. The first photos in the album feature a train wreck on Rock Island road near Lincoln, Nebraska. There are also photos from aboard the Maid of the Mist boat tour of the American and Canadian sides of Niagara Falls, the Arapaho Glacier, and a hand-colored photo of poinsettias in a vase. Photos measure between 3.5 x 5.5” and 7 x 5” and are glued to the pages, accompanied by handwritten annotations. The Nebraska Sanitarum was founded by John Harvey Kellogg as a branch of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, and operated between 1894 and the mid 1920s. A few photos have some light condition issues, otherwise the album is complete.

Price: $499.00