Between the Covers

Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Stiiff black leather blank album. Joints and spine eroded but sound, very good, internally about fine. Photo album with approximately 165 well-composed images. Various sizes, mostly two, three, or four to a page. Circa 1945. The album consists largely of images of Washington, D.C., New York City, Gettysburg, Philadelphia, and Valley Forge, with a reasonable selection of images of sailors on leave. In Washington, many of the photographs are of government buildings and monuments including some taken from the Washington Monument, cherry blossoms, and in the other cities of various landmark buildings. Among the Washington photos are several from a homecoming parade for General Eisenhower, with a couple of him waving from a jeep, and another pair of close-ups of him speaking. The photographs were taken by Petty Officer Hugh W. Brannon of Atlanta. Brannon spent thirty years working for Eastman Kodak, and during the War was a photographer assigned to the Staff of Secretary of the Navy, James V. Forrestal, where he screened all Navy combat footage for the Secretary and Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. During the Korean War he was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet Camera Party, and filmed all Developmental Weapons Tests for the Bureau of Ships. As might be expected from the photographers bona fides, the images in this album are of an unusually fine quality to be found in a vernacular photo album.

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