TEXAS MISSOURI OZARKS PHOTO ALBUM 1909- 1930s

Item #858

Black lace-bound album, 48 gray leaves/96 pages, 15.25” X 11.25” X 1”; very little in the way of tearing or creasing, still tightly bound although the cover is worn and a little damaged around the edges. Some bumping along the thick spine of the pages.

There are over 320 photographs, the majority being at 2.5” x 3.5” matte or 2.75” x 4.5” glossy; additionally, numerous ephemera are pasted in. Consistent annotation in a sinister cursive, some rather witty. Beautifully laid out and well-pasted: none of the photos are loose. Nothing appears to have been removed and except for about 15 unused pages, the album is complete.

This was evidently assembled in the 1930s, from different bundles of photos; different events are grouped together on the same page(s) but chronological order of groupings was not maintained.

The family looks to have been from the Kansas City, Missouri area, and other places mentioned include San Antonio, Tarpon, Texas, Winnewood Lake, White’s Island, John Hartmann School, Excelsior Springs, Swope Park, etc. Depicted is a very sporting life, with most images involving outdoor fun, fishing, and boating trips or at summer camp. Some of the contents:

⁃ Students of the San Marcos Baptist Academy in Texas playing baseball - the pictures are from 1909-13, a few years after the school was founded in 1907
⁃ Boating in Corpus Christi Bay
⁃ Fourth of July picnics, log cabins, couples sunning themselves, family photos with extensive lists of names
⁃ A trip to the Ozarks, summer 1927, including the monument ‘where 3 states meet’
⁃ A 1934 trip to New Jersey - Salem, Plainfield, Woodstown, Daretown
⁃ Several photos of Lakewood cemetery, Minneapolis, 1926
⁃ Numerous proud photos of early automobiles

Ephemera include:

⁃ Valentine card, 1917
⁃ Clipping of an automobile brake test, Kansas, 1925
⁃ Newspaper clipping, including a Popeye strip, 1933
⁃ 2 paste-ins from a 1922 memorial service
⁃ Program for a play, 1928
⁃ FDR’s inaugural address, printed in a newspaper clipping, 1933 - “To America in the Crisis”
⁃ Junior High School Band Recital Program, Kansas City, 1930
⁃ Photos, clippings and brochures from Camp Bo-Ho-Ca, Missouri, and the BOHOCAN newsletter, summer 1931
⁃ Several hand-printed poetry chapbooks
⁃ Three newspaper clippings with photos of the ‘Maids of Honor’ to the 1924 civic pageant and parade in Kansas City
⁃ Schematic of living room and dining room, along with photos of construction, 1923.

Price: $600.00

Status: On Hold