Massachusetts / Santa Carla, Mexico / Wyoming.
Price: $1,400.00
Hardcover. Oblong Folio measuring 12.5 " x 10.5". Brown cloth boards with the word, "photographs" in gilt on the front cover. Contains 90 black and white or sepia toned photographs measuring between 5” x 2” and 9.5” x 7” with some captions. Bumped spine ends and corners with foxing and chips on the protective photo paper else near fine with fine photographs.
A photo album containing a mix of vintage American photographs and cutout illustrations featuring various locations, objects, and other obscurities. The landscape photographs are usually of town streets, houses, lakes, and beaches. A few are from Massachusetts, Santa Clara, Mexico, and the Shoshone Tunnel in the Canon of Grand River, Wyoming. Another photo shows the different businesses on the 100 block of South Adams Street in Peoria, Illinois with Schipper & Block, Fulton, E. J. Graves Milliner, Rosenthal Dry Goods Co., State Loan Co., and more. There are a few from the Santa Barbara (California) Fair showing a woman dressed in carnival attire, two African-American twins, and a dwarf. Other photographs are of random objects like house appliances, fruit, rabbits, horses, an older man with a fish, an eclipse, and an elephant. The still life illustrations include drawings of house tables, lamps, lakes, and the school house that Henry David Thoreau attended as well as a large illustration of Gustav Adolf Von Schweden (Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden).
An obscurely interesting and eclectic collection of well-accomplished photographs displaying a curious sensibility with some attention to the art of photography.
Item #417341
