Item #898 1940s TREASURE ISLAND SAN FRANCISCO PHOTO ALBUM
1940s TREASURE ISLAND SAN FRANCISCO PHOTO ALBUM
1940s TREASURE ISLAND SAN FRANCISCO PHOTO ALBUM
1940s TREASURE ISLAND SAN FRANCISCO PHOTO ALBUM
1940s TREASURE ISLAND SAN FRANCISCO PHOTO ALBUM
1940s TREASURE ISLAND SAN FRANCISCO PHOTO ALBUM
1940s TREASURE ISLAND SAN FRANCISCO PHOTO ALBUM

1940s TREASURE ISLAND SAN FRANCISCO PHOTO ALBUM

Item #898

Small album, landscape orientation - 8 12” x 5 3/4” x 1 1/4”. 24 leaves/48 pages, black; first and last pages blank, as are inside covers.

Canvas-wrapped binding in excellent condition - no tears, chips, loose pages. Lace binding fully intact, some rubbing at corners and a little wear-through.

The first 13 pages are annotated in pencil; many, if not all, of the photographs are described on the reverse. The great majority of the images come in a standard 1 7/8” x 2 3/4”. Curiously, the photos are individually numbered in tiny digits in a corner, from 200 to 340 (with two missing photos near the end of the sequence - #327 and #329. Evidently this was one of a series of albums assembled at the time. Photos and corner tabs have been very carefully arranged and pasted within the album.

The last eight pages feature larger portraits - 2 1/2” x 3 1/2” - from which the two missing photos have been removed.

The most interesting feature of this album is probably the dozen-plus images of the Golden Gate International Exposition, held in 1939 and 1940; for which the rectangular Treasure Island had been constructed in 1936-7 in the San Francisco Bay. Two photos were taken at the House of Mystery in Gold Hill, Oregon. These travelers were also interested, it seems, in transportation accidents: numerous photos document a 1941 train wreck in Pleasanton, CA, and several more were taken of a car crash in Arizona that same year.

Price: $200.00

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