Auger Down Books

[Bermuda]

Two Photo Albums of a Young Woman’s Trip to Bermuda, 1918.

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.....

Price: $450.00

Billings, John [Civil War]

Personal Photograph Album of John Billings, Author of Hardtack and Coffee, Kept During the Civil War.

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.....

Price: $4,500.00

[Industrial Photography] [Timber] [California]

Photo Album of Logging in Humboldt and Eureka Counties, c. 1951-1960.

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.....

Price: $1,500.00

[Industrial Photography] Reading Crane and Hoist Works

A Company Presentation Album with 101 Photographs of Early American Steel Hoists in their Installed Locations. V.p., circa 1900.

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.....

Price: $2,000.00

[Music] [Los Angeles] [African-Americana]

Photo Album of Aeros Theda, an African-American Musician in the 1970s Los Angeles Fusion Scene.

Mostly Los Angeles: 1970s. Quarto, laminated photographic cloth album, 10 x 11 inches, 80 photographs and assorted ephemera, most photographs 8 x 10 inches. Mostly Los Angeles, 1970s-early 1980s. Aeros Theda was a Michigan-born formally-trained musician living in California in the 1970s, where she played in several fusion/rock/jazz.....

Price: $1,500.00

[Photography - 19th Century] [Abolition] [Alaska] [Douglass, Frederick] Warren, George, et al.

Album of Albumen Portraits of Noted Abolitionists, Cultural Figures and Politicians including an Uncommon Frederick Douglass Image by George Warren, as well as Kodak Model Two Photographs taken in Alaska c. 1890s.

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.....

Price: $6,000.00

[Photography - 20th Century][Vernacular]

A Series of Fifty-Nine Captioned Vernacular Photographs of an Unidentified African-American Man in Chicago circa late 1940s.

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.....

Price: $600.00

[Sports - Boxing] Moore, Archie

Personal Scrapbook belonging to Archie Moore showing Moore’s Travels in Germany and Africa, with other Photographs and Ephemera Laid Inside.

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.....

Price: $2,500.00

[Western Americana] [National Parks] [Blackfeet] Hileman, T.J.; Haynes, Frank J.; Jacobs, Frank, et al.

Album of 132 Photographs showing Scenery from Western American National Parks, with Many Realphoto Postcards by Noted Photographers including Blackfeet Photographs by T.J. Hileman.

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.....

Price: $1,375.00

[Western Americana] [Recreation]

Album of Photographs of a Couple and their German Shepherds, Enjoying Decades of Recreation in the Great Outdoors in Early 20th Century Oregon and California.

California and Oregon: 1926-1954. Oblong 8vo, dyed calf album measuring 11 x 7 inches. Contains 218 photographs, most measuring 3 x 5, with some smaller. A charming album depicting the canine-centric adventures of a couple as they fish, hike, and camp their way through some of the great Western parks.....

Price: $975.00

[Women] [Massachusetts] [Boston Brahmin] [Photography]

Photograph Album of roughly 1,400 Pictures Taken by a Young Woman with a Connection to the Cabot Family of Boston, Showing a Modern Eye for Composition, Circa 1930.

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.....

Price: $1,750.00

[Women] [Massachusetts] [Haverhill]

Eight Journals Documenting Life in Haverhill, Massachussetts, 1890-1925, Meticulously Assembled from Cut Photographs and Postcards.

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.....

Price: $1,450.00