Between the Covers

Softcover. Oblong octavo. Approximately 9" x 6½". String-tied cloth over flexible boards with "Snap Shots" stamped in blind on front board. Approximately 125 gelatin silver images, mostly measuring 3½" x 4½", most captioned in white album ink. A handful of images have been removed, boards and images otherwise near fine. Not mounted strictly chronologically but many dated between 1922 and 1924. Presentation card laid in: "Luella Detrick Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. O.W. Beach."

Most of the images are of young Colorado homesteaders, their family, and their friends. Designated locations include Denver, Colorado Springs, Hugo, Julesburg, Fruita, and a few in Utah. Some names are included: Daddy Kreisinger, Ruth Beery, the Switzers, Mrs. Lily, and the Walkers. Several of the images are taken before a primitive turf house and others in an equally simple wooden structure. Images include people with cars and simple trucks, haying in a field, a woman on horseback, several of Halloween with a few images of "Black Joe" (a child in a blackface mask and costume) and other children in costumes, a picnic, swimming at a pond, a couple of a man peeling potatoes, a picture of young female twins, another of two young women passionately kissing (labeled "Practicing"), and several family groups. A nice collection of images of young homesteaders making thier way in 1920s Colorado.

Item #444570