[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912

Pennsylvania: 1912.

Price: $500.00

Hardcover. Oblong octavo measuring 7" x 5". Black cloth over flexible paper boards with "photographs" stamped on the front board. Contains 74 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 1.5" x 2" and 3" x 5.5" without captions. Front free endpaper detached but present else near fine with near fine photographs.

A photo album of vernacular photography around 1912 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, the date and place inferred from a laid in postcard. The postcard is addressed to Jenny Sankey and was sent to her by her daughter. The album itself opens with a photo of three men posed outside holding smoking pipes followed by interior shots of a fashionably furnished home. The photos are not in any particular order and show a carriage race, a camping trip, and a photo of a hot air balloon. One section of photos shows well-to-do men and women posed outside of their family home with their dog. A few platinum prints are included throughout the album including one of two men in an early car. There’s also a section of photos of a nurse taking care of a newborn. The end of the album features horseback riding and another camping trip with images of their tented encampment and the landscape of the area. The album ends with a photo of children in bathing costumes posed on a beach.

An interesting collection of well-composed amateur photography of an upper middle class Pennsylvania family.


Item #411699

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Item #411699 [Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912. Jenny SANKEY.
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912
[Photo Album]: Pennsylvania Family 1912