![[Photo Album Documenting a Tour of the Southern United States and Cuba].](/pictures/thumb/3916_1.jpg?v=1495657089)
An extensive album documenting the people and places of the Southern United States and Cuba. This ample photo album records a tour through the southern United States and Cuba at the turn of the century. The unknown but clearly white photographer, as certain racist inscriptions reveal, begins in Richmond...
![[Photo Album from Daytona Beach at the Advent of America's Automobile Racing Craze].](/pictures/thumb/3824_1.jpg?v=1495638865)
A Florida photo album depicting in part the peak of Daytona Beach's automobile racing and the dawn of a new American obsession. This album, evidently documenting a group—possibly family—outing to the Daytona Beach auto races, testifies to the growing popularity among everyday people of automobile racing and speed records...
![[Photograph Album Compiled by a French Missionary in China].](/pictures/thumb/3644_1.jpg?v=1495062177)
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...
A scarce and vivid photographic portrait of Calcutta as seen through the eyes of an American GI photojournalist from Texas at the close of World War II. A member of the Houston Press before the war, Clyde Waddell served as personal photographer to Lord Mountbatten from 1943 to 1945. He...
![Liber Amicorum [Photo Illustrated Journal of a European Grand Tour]. Caroline Alden Weir.](/pictures/thumb/3913_1.jpg?v=1495725897)
Caroline Alden Weir’s delightful account of a springtime grand tour of Italy, France, Scotland and England with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Cora and an annoying companion named Heller. Caroline Weir, daughter of impressionist artist Julian Alden Weir, traveling variously by ship, gondola, train, landau, and car, visits Venice, Genoa...