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.....
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.....
![Photo album documenting the Estes Park, Colorado.]. Frank E. Baker, anonymous photographers](/pictures/thumb/4465.jpg?v=1560463739)
A delightful photo album documenting visits to Estes Park, Colorado, in the region that became the Rocky Mountain National Park two decades later. Estes Park serves as a base for the Rocky Mountain National Park (est. 1915), situated between the towns of Estes Park to the east and Grand...
![Locomotive photo archive.] Photographs; Porte Feuille [cover-titles]. Boston, Providence Railroad](/pictures/thumb/5490_1.jpg?v=1563205784)
An impressive photo archive documenting a range of locomotives built for the Boston & Providence Railroad by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works; the Taunton Locomotive Mfg. Co.; Mason Machine Works; the Hinkley & Williams Works, and the Boston & Providence itself. Forty-two of the various engines pictured were produced...
![Alaska As We Saw It [cover title]. George L. Johnson, Levy Smith, photog., compiler Dr. E. O. Hay](/pictures/thumb/5112_1.jpg?v=1560464197)
A substantial photo album documenting a tour up the west coast through Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Vancouver, B.C, and Victoria, B.C to Alaska, Dawson City, Yukon Territory, and the Canadian Rockies. This album was compiled by one Dr. E. O. Hay as a member of an excursion organized by the Criswell-Adams.....
A lively photo album of a trip to Bermuda and back to New York, capturing the local populace and various scenes from around the beautiful island and the capital city of Hamilton. This album primarily documents a trip to Bermuda on March 1-3, 1899 undertaken by Howard and Miami Pruyn...
A typescript field report, documenting pacification missions by the Indian Army in the frontier regions of Kameng, 1954–55, illustrated with original photographs. Offered here is a fascinating volume combining Lt. Rai’s journal with his formal field report documenting the geography, ethnography and social-political organization of the remote frontier region of.....
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...