American Indian Archaeology During New York's Automobile Age

New York, et al. 1921-1934. Large heavy folio, 12 x 14 inches. 81 leaves, cloth covers with string-through binding. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Leonidas Westervelt was a New York-based playwright and theater historian who also had an interest in archaeology. This scrapbook documents his digs in the New.....

The Author John Billings' Personal Carte-de-Visite Album

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.....

Patagonia in the 1890s

Mostly Patagonia: 1890s. Printing-out paper prints, the images measuring 3 1/4x4 1/2 to 4 1/4x6 inches, and the reverse, each with a caption, written on a label affixed to the mount below the prints. 4to, blue pictorial cloth. 1890s. In this bound photo album, forty-six photographs document a group traveling.....

Humboldt and Eureka Counties: 1951-1960. Oblong quarto, cream colored cloth boards, 10 ¼ x 13 ¼ inches. Contains 160 photographs, measuring from 2 x 3 to 2 x 5 inches. Most photos identified with captions. As engaging a photographic document of mid-century forestry as one is likely to find, following.....

New York: 1910-194. Oblong folio, 10 ½ x 14 ½ inches, with 335 silver gelatin photographs, measuring 5 x 6 ¾ inches, with one larger 9 ½ x 13 image. Images numbered in negatives, most dated as well. Three pages with spaces for images that aren’t included, with corresponding lapses.....

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.....

National Park Tourism in the 1920s

Various Places: 1920s. Oblong folio, cloth over cardstock, 15 x 11 inches. Photographs and realphoto postcards, most measuring around 5 x 3 1/2 inches, mounted to pages. The system of national parks was created at first in a somewhat piecemeal fashion, with the Department of the Interior holding responsibility for.....

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.....