Photo Albums
This collection consists of 2 thick hardcover books with marbled covers. The vaudeville albums, compiled by actor Milton Boyle, are completely stuffed with programs for plays, advertisements for shows, newspaper clippings, signed portraits from actor friends, photos from shows, and letters and cards from friends. He traveled throughout the US.....
Two 1920s photos albums from the 1920s, from a family in Colorado. There are around 200 photos in total in these two albums and include: The first album measures 10.25 x 7.25,” and has a taped spine and color illustrations of significant locations in Colorado on the cover. This.....
A hardcover navy blue 12 x 9.25” ring binder which says “Photographs” on the front in gold. Inside, there are plans and photos of proposed school buildings designed by Aldermon & MacNeish Architects and Engineers, first based in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and later in West Springfield. The album includes illustrated proposed.....
This coverless album measures 13.5 x 10” and contains around 300 black-and-white photos from 1942 to 1945. The album may have been compiled by a woman affiliated with the military during WWII, as there are photos annotated as “me,” which are of a woman. Or perhaps she added photos later.....
Black oversized 18 x 12.5” album with “Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM T. SMITH” stamped on the lower right corner of the front cover in gold, along with “Photographs.” This large album contains around 400 black-and-white photos from Panama during World War II. Photos mainly show men of the Shore Patrol.....
This green 10.5 x 9.25” photo album from 1916 contains around 300 black-and-white photos from American, English, and Australian people living in India. Specifically, the people pictured appear to have worked at or around the Angus Jute Co. in Calcutta (now Kolkata), which was established in 1913 and closed in.....
14 x 11” pale green string-bound album with “Photographs” in gold on the cover and a decorative design. The album contains around 78 Kodak technicolor photos from 1969-1972. The limited annotations identify places and some important individuals, but full names of members of the family pictured are not provided. The.....
Dark brown string-bound album with “Photographs” in gold on the cover and an embossed profile of a woman. The first page of the album reads: “This Photograph Album belongs to: Sue Betty Blaicher 11212 Homewood Ave. Chicago, Illinois The pictures in this album were taken with a Kodak Baby Brownie.....
5.5 x 7.75” black album with a faint frame design embossed on the front cover. The inside front cover reads: “Memories of the days spent at ‘Wigwam Cottage’ Buckeye Lake, Ohio. Aug. 3rd to 10th 1906.” Contains 26 black-and-white photos from this trip, starting with the travelers in a horse-drawn.....
8.25 x 5.75” black album containing around 180 black-and-white photos from 1909 and 1910. Most of the photos are of family, friends, children, and travel in the Missouri area, especially Kirksville, La Plata, and the Clapp Farm, with some trips made to parts of Pennsylvania. Among the more notable photographs.....
Black string-bound album with “Photographs” on the front cover in gold measuring 11 x 7”. On the inside front cover there is a clipping from a cartoon of a young boy asking his Pop to tell him about when he was an officer in France. This somewhat whimsical opening acts.....
8.25 x 6” black leather string-bound album with “Photographs” on the front cover in gold. Contains around 185 black-and-white photos spanning the years from 1906 to 1917. The album seems to have been compiled by a young woman in Massachusetts, possibly the one identified as “E.C.G.” throughout the album, who.....
11 x 7.25” black string-bound album with “Photographs” embossed on the front cover. Contains around 216 black-and-white photos that seem to be from Oregon. In particular there are photos of the McKenzie River State Fish Hatchery and the Belknap Bath House. There are photos of the McKenzie River, Silver Creek.....
7.5 x 10.5” brown scrapbook with “Kendall Photos” in gold on the spine. Contains over 200 black-and-white photos from around 1911 to 1913. Photos show King’s Beach, Cove John Blaney, Cliff House, and Egg Rock Lighthouse, which seems to place the location in Maine. Later photos of an Aides Parade.....
9.75 x 7” blue snakeskin-texture album with “Photographs” in gold. Contains around 86 black-and-white photographs from the 1948 Olympic Games held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first Olympics to be held after World War II. The first page has a picture of a dog, identified as “Betsy” illustrated by A......
12.25 x 8” dark green string-bound album with “Photographs” in a decorative silver oval. Contains close to 100 black-and-white photos and 11 color postcards from a trip to Hawaii, Alaska and Vancouver, BC, from around 1920. One of the children photographed is identified as Ursula Cole. Most of the photos.....
12.25 x 9.5” faded black string-bound album with a torn emblem of “Oak Grove Seminary” on the front cover. Contains around 347 black-and-white photos dating from 1921 to 1923 that feature teachers and students of the school. There are also pictures of the school itself, but these seem to be.....
18 x 9.25” brown album with a partially clear front cover. Through the clear pocket there is a photo and text which reads: “Eighth United States Army Korea. A C of S G-2 Department of the Army Far East Tour 9-13 January 1953.” There are twenty-six pages, each page consists.....
12 x 10.25” textured black album with “Photographs'' on the front cover in gold. Contains nearly 500 black-and-white photos and around 34 cyanotype prints from 1906 to 1920. The album is divided into chapters which focus on different themes. The first chapter features photos from Beach Pond in Connecticut and.....
11.5 x 7.25” black string-bound album with “Photographs” on the cover in gold. Contains around 26 black-and-white photos (two are commercial prints) and photo postcards from the early 1910s of a troupe of circus performers. These performers–the La Joe Troupe, according to the first photo in the album–appear to be.....
11 1/2" x 10." Floral print polyester fabric over beveled boards, metal spiral binding. 10 adhesive card leaves with plastic overlays holding 70, circa 1970 color snapshots, each measuring about 3 1/4" x 2 1/4." Prints firmly adhered to pages with typed identification strips surrounding the images. Some pages are.....
Maroon string-bound album measuring 11.5 x 7.25” with “Photographs” in gold on the cover and an embossed frame pattern. Contains 28 black-and-white photos from the 1939-1940 Golden Gate International Exposition. The album starts with a photo of the impressive 80-foot statue of Pacifica; the theme of the exposition was apparently.....
10 x 10.25” album with a plush plastic cover featuring an illustrated atlas of the world on the covers. Taped to the front cover is a piece of paper which reads: “A Picture Study of Spanish New York - the life and environment by Thomas Holzer + Kevin McNamara.” As.....
14 x 10” black album with “Photographs” on the front cover. Contains over 650 black-and-white photos and photo postcards from 1910 to 1922, and seems to have been compiled by Irene McDermott of Washington state. The photos are largely from a family or group of friends traveling around parts of.....
11 x 7.25” black string-bound album with “Photographs” in faded gold on the front cover. This album is from 1927 to 1932 and contains around 115 black-and-white photos and real photo postcards of travel around the Midwestern United States. In particular, the man and woman pictured in the album visited.....