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...
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...
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.....