Bermuda: 1918. Oblong 8vo, wraps, with 47 original gelatin silver photographs glued to an equal number of pages in two albums, each photo with short description typed on a slip of paper affixed beneath or beside the image. Images measure 4 ¼ x 2 ⅜ inches or reverse, albums are.....
Massachusetts: 1860s. 9 x 6 inches. Polished calf decorative covers. Nineteen pages, with 55 Carte-de-Visite portraits. A carte-de-visite portrait album kept by Billings during the Civil War. Notation before index reads: “This album was sent me, at my order, from Philadelphia and was received while our army lay at Brandy.....
Waterbury, Connecticut: 1920-1932. Oblong quartos, 10 x 13 inches, appx. 140 pages total. A unique family record of a Connecticut middle-class military family, assembled with great effort and skill by one of its members out of cut photographs and newspaper clippings. The albums trace the family’s history through the World.....
Reading: Circa 1900. Oblong 8vo, black cloth covered boards. With 101 prints, 70 on silver and 31 on printing out paper. Each picture captioned. The Reading Crane and Hoist Company, later Roeper Hoist and Crane Works, installed cranes throughout the Northeast, many of which are pictured here. Many pictures show.....
V.p. 1890s. Oblong quarto, leatherette, heavy card stock album pages with photographs affixed. This album of photographs, assembled probably during the 1890s, is notable in three ways; for its extensive collection of notable cultural figures in the late nineteenth century including abolitionists, politicians, women’s suffrage advocates authors, etc; the inclusion.....
Chicago: 1940s. First Edition. 4 x 3 inch glossy silver gelatin photographs on three 6 x 11 inch disbound album leaves. A series of fifty-nine photographs taped onto three leatherette boards. A wonderfully vibrant group, showing the joyful life of an off -duty soldier in Chicago. Boards in rough shape.....
Various Places: 1857-1980. Illustrated calf “Frankfurt” binding, 9 x 10 inches. With twelve scrapbook pages and twenty-eight photographs and two programs laid in. Archie Moore’s personal scrapbook, evidently started in Frankfurt in the period surrounding his fight with Hans Kalbfell, and extending onward. Moore used the scrapbook to house other.....
Boston: 1930. Oblong quarto, 49 pp. With appx. 1,400 photos, most measuring less than an inch square, with roughly 175 in larger formats up to 3 ½ by 5 inches. A wonderful labor of photographic love created by an unidentified young woman with ties to the Cabot family of Beacon.....
Haverhill: 1940. First Edition. Seven journals, each approximately 70 pages, with pages measuring 4 ½ x 2 ½ inches. These journals, by an unnamed member of the Dean family of Haverhill, were assembled around 1940 from collected family and historical photographs. Taken as a whole they provide a richly detailed.....