Between the Covers

Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Measuring 12" x 10". Black leather over stiff paper boards with "Round the World" stamped in gilt on the front board. Contains 68 mounted albumen photographs measuring between 3.25" x 3.25" to 8" x 10" with captions. Very good album with worn edges, rubbing, and tears with near fine photographs with some faint foxing on the pages.

A collection of 68 beautiful travel photographs depicting a trip “Round the World” in 1896. The album contains large, well-composed photographs detailing each leg of a worldwide trip that included Malta, the Suez Canal, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, California, British Columbia, Alaska, Utah, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Ottawa. The journey was taken on large steam ships which are seen in photographs throughout the album beginning with the S.S. *Valetta*. The images are large prints showing the coastlines of the ports where they docked, well-dressed travelers, and the locals met along the way. An early photo in the album shows three of the travelers in top hats, leaning on canes, which reads, “the great curve, Suez canal,” showing ships traveling through the canal behind them. The local people in Sri Lanka are seen in various shots including a street scene and portrait style images. Once in Australia they photographed city streets in Sydney, a farm, and the coast of Hobart. In New Zealand they photographed Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki), traveled to Samoa, and then on to Hawaii. They went to San Francisco which is featured here in a wonderful street scene of Market Street, journeyed up the coast stopping in California cities along the way and eventually going to British Columbia with stunning photos of the mountain ranges, trains, and one of a cabin at the base of a mountain surrounded by Canadian woods. Onward from there they traveled to Alaska and captured a “group of Alaskan Indians” on the shores of the state. One photo shows two of the travelers posed on a glacier and another of a ship passing the Muir Glacier. The final leg of the journey included a trip to Salt Lake City, Colorado, Chicago, New York, and finally Ottawa, Canada.

A wonderful album of world travel photography from the late 1800s.

Item #422320