Photo Album of a Rhode Island Woman

Rhode Island: 1909-1919.

Price: $650.00

Hardcover. Oblong small octavo. Measuring 7" x 6". Black textured cloth over stiff paper boards. Contains 204 sepia toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 1" x 1" and 5" x 7", some with captions. Very good album with worn edges and chips with near fine photographs.

A photo album kept by a Providence, Rhode Island woman, Isabelle Coolee, with photos from 1909 through 1919. The album was given as a Christmas gift by a friend named Rose in 1915. Girls are seen throughout posed in fields and gardens in fashionable clothes, reading, skipping, and laughing together. Rhode Island locations are featured throughout the album including the Warwick Neck Lighthouse and the gate of Senator Aldrich’s mansion. The photos from 1917 and 1918 show men posed in uniforms and include professional photographs of soldiers and sailors. The women are also photographed at a Y.M.C.A. camp with photos of uniformed girls at camp. Isabelle and her family also traveled outside of Rhode Island including trips to New York and Miami, Florida. The final pages show portraits of friends in photo strip format. A nice collection of images detailing a decade in a young woman’s life that nicely captures the zeitgeist of the age.


Item #411568

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Item #411568 Photo Album of a Rhode Island Woman. Isabelle COOLEE.