PHOTO ALBUM OF AMERICAN MISSIONARY LIFE
AMONG THE ZULU, CIRCA 1900

A fascinating album documenting life at several missionary stations of the Zulu branch established by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in what is now KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Among the mission stations pictured here are Umzumbe and Inanda, both of which were home to two of the earliest.....

THE SEATTLE SCENE, CIRCA 1900

A fine pair of photo albums richly documenting the scene in and around Seattle at the turn of the century. The photographs in these albums fall into five principal categories: activity along Seattle’s waterfront; the city’s interior; lumber, hunting, and mining industries; artistic tomfoolery including some double-exposure spirit photographs and.....

A COUPLE VISITS THE NEW YORK
WORLD’S FAIR IN 1939 AND 1940

A photo album compiled by an unidentified young couple documenting their vacations between 1936 and 1940, including a substantial number of photos of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. The 1939–40 New York World’s Fair opened on April 30th, 1939 in Flushing Meadow, Queens. The first exposition to have a......

A FRENCH MISSIONARY IN CHINA

A fascinating photo album assembled by a French Jesuit missionary in China during the first quarter of the 20th century. This album tells the story of Jesuit priest Père Crochet who began working as a missionary in China in the 1890s, remaining there until at least the 1930s. Two larger.....

“FLYING V” DUDE RANCH, TUCSON, ARIZONA

A photo album comprising 181 images documenting a family’s eight-and-a-half month stay at a dude ranch in Tucson in the 1940s. This album chronicles the Austin family’s time at the “Flying V” Ranch, featuring images of the ranch and its lodgings; dudes on the trail; a “chuckwagon” with African-American cooks;.....

EXTENSIVE PHOTO ALBUM OF NEW ENGLAND
BANK INTERIORS AND EXTERIORS, 1920s

An unusually rich document of bank architecture and bank interiors in New England and elsewhere, evidently for the use of a firm involved in bank design. Stamps on the versos of several photos suggest that this album was compiled and owned by the General Bank Equipment Co., which at the.....

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND ITS LOGGING INDUSTRY

An evocative album documenting the Northern California lumbering industry in the early 20th century. Comprising images by at least eight identified photographers, this album begins with a range of photos of lumberjacks posing in front of massive felled, or soon-to-be felled, Redwood trees in Humboldt County. Images show the transportation.....

A RARE PHOTOGRAPHICALLY
ILLUSTRATED LOCOMOTIVE CATALOG, 1871

A rare and impressive locomotive trade catalog illustrated with original photographs of engines and parts, providing comprehensive and detailed photographic documentation of locomotive construction. The photographs were taken by the firm of noted New York City photographer George Rockwood.  Included here are portraits of the Lake Shore & Michigan Railroad.....

MARVELS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CAPTURED
BY A NOTED CALIFORNIA-BASED PHOTOGRAPHER

A fine photo album, likely the photographer’s own, comprising sixty-six images picturing southern California’s mountains, seaside views, orange industry, tourist destinations, and more. The detailed pencil inscriptions below some of the images, such as “Camp Mt. Wilson Aug. 1906” and “Thanksgiving Day in Calif. 1901” (for a shot of a......

A STUNNING PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENT
FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN RAILROADS

A rare, presumably unique, and truly splendid in-house photograph album documenting engines manufactured by the Brooks Locomotive Works from 1871 to 1880. Founded in 1869 by Horatio G. Brooks, the former chief engineer for the New York & Erie Railroad, the Brooks Locomotive Works built locomotives for many of the.....

LIVINGSTON, MONTANA & YELLOWSTONE
PHOTO ALBUM

An appealing album of 167 photos documenting the Livingston, Montana scene and Yellowstone National Park, as well as Wrangel Island, Alaska; Petersburg, Alaska; Seattle, and Tacoma, including photos taken at Camp Lewis, a World War I training camp in Tacoma. Compiled by Joseph F. Scherieble (1895–1953), this album mainly consists.....

SPELUNKING JOURNAL
ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOS

A very fine and unusual typescript journal of the Northern Cavern and Fell Club of Yorkshire, including typescript accounts of spelunking adventures and sixteen striking original photographs. This remarkable journal consists of lists of the officers of the Northern Cavern and Fell Club (est. 1928); a list of over a......

HARVARD UNIVERSITY CLASS ALBUM, 1872,
WITH OVER 200 PHOTOS

A marvelous two-volume Harvard University class album comprising 205 original photographs, picturing the administration, faculty, students, and campus scenes, including images of a number of notable figures. Vol. 1 features photographs of 124 members of the class; Vol. II comprises photographs of the administration, including the president, the ex-president, the.....