Between the Covers

Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Measuring 11½" x 7". String-tied black leather over stiff paper boards. Contains 290 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 1" x 1" and 4" x 6", with captions. Good only albums with detached but present pages and worn edges with near fine photographs.

A photo album following camping trips and excursions taken by a group of female friends in the 1920s and early 1930s around Wisconsin. The women are seen fishing, camping, swimming, canoeing, and engaged in other outdoor sports and activities. It seems the women were close friends and tried to go on a trip once a year. They traveled around Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Canada, enjoying the natural landscape of the region including Elk Creek Lake, Chippewa River, various waterfalls, and the Yellow River. They are often photographed goofing off and being silly. The women are pictured in fashionable clothes and stylish bobbed haircuts as well as in trousers and bathing costumes. One photo is captioned, "waiting for President Coolidge" who was speaking at a church in Burke, Wisconsin in 1928. The camaraderie of the group is seen throughout the album with smiling faces, women draped over each other in cots, and working together to start camp fires and row boats. Towards the end of the album the women are seen skiing at a country club in 1933.

An extensive collection of photographs detailing women’s camping trips in the 1920s.

Item #437718