Various, including Middlesex County, Virginia and Radnor Township, Pennsylvania]: [circa-1920's]. 1920s. Oblong photo album, black cloth over cardstock, measuring 10" x 7 1/4." With seventeen black paper leaves with seventy-nine black and white snapshot photographs. Photograph adhesive mounted to rectos and versos. Five leaves in about the center of the.....

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.....

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.....

Southern California: 1920s. Limp leatherette album, oblong 4to measuring 10 x 7 inches, with seventy photographs, most measuring 4 x 2 ½ inches. Wear to binding, photographs with excellent contrast, very good to near fine overall. An energetic album of photographs belonging to one Eddie Jones, a fun-loving banjo player.....

Mostly Los Angeles: 1937-1939. Oblong quarto, containing 117 photographs. Sixty-two of the photographs involve motorcycles directly, either action shots or posed shots in attire, with many others showing scenery from motorcycle tours. Some photographs missing, those present are in excellent condition with fine contrast, very good condition overall. A charming.....

Maine: 1908-1912. First Edition. Oblong album measuring 10 x 7 inches with 135 photographs and varied ephemera inside. Nearly complete with one photo missing, minimal wear, near fine overall. The first 100 or so photographs show campus life, the rest show students perhaps on summer vacation at beaches, etc. A.....

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.....

Most Washington State: 1930-1941. Oblong album measuring 11 ¼ x 7 ¼ inches, 144 photographs. Most measuring 2 ¼ x 3 ¼. An album documenting the lives of a Japanese-American family in Seattle in the 1930s, when the ethnic Japanese population in Seattle was about 9,000, making Japanese-Americans the fourth.....

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.....

Colorado and New Mexico: 1900-1907. With ninety-six photographs measuring 4 ½ x 3 ½ and varied ephemera pasted in. Brittleness to pages, fine contrast to photos, some pages detached due to brittleness but still very good or better. A visually compelling collection of images of rural life along the Colorado.....

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.....

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.....