Price: $1,400.00
Hardcover. Oblong octavo. String-tied flexible cloth with "Photographs" stamped in blind on the top board. Modest edgewear on the boards, near fine. Contains 141 mostly sepia-tone gelatin silver photographs. Images are various sizes ranging mostly between 2" x 3" and 3" x 3½", with several larger, mostly mounted between three and six to the page and mostly captioned. Some modest fading on some of the images, one with a touch of damage, but most are near fine or better. A well-photographed album of rural images, the first page devoted to prize cattle (a few other images of cattle and horses appear) but about half of the images are devoted to hunting, trapping, and fishing in the Adirondacks, mostly between 1922 and 1923, with a few from earlier dates. The hunting images show catches of fish, foxes, skunks, muskrats, deer, mink, as well as gun-toting men, and several of hunting dogs (all of whom it seems were named "Uncas"). Most of the rest of the album is devoted to images of cheerful younger people on boats or on trips in automobiles, mostly to rural areas (with Uncas present!). An engaging, interesting, and largely subject specific group of images.
Item #402504