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.....
![1920s Hawaii photo album with “The Big Kahuna” content.]. Ray Jerome Baker, photographers, R....](/pictures/thumb/6148.jpg?v=1611604763)
An album of over 100 original photographs documenting a French tourist’s trip to Hawaii at the time of the centennial of the arrival of American missionaries, with images of apparently related celebrations, two photos of Duke Kahanamoku—the noted father of modern surfing and Olympic swimmer—and an engaging variety of other.....
![Part of the Crew, U.S.S. Bear in 1898. Relive [sic] Expedition on the Ice, at Point Barrow. H....](/pictures/thumb/5282_1.jpg?v=1572632476)
A rare photo of ten members of a relief expedition for 275 stranded whalers, commanded by African-American Capt. “Hell Roaring” Mike Healy. This photograph shows ten members of the crew of the USS Bear at Point Barrow in 1898, wearing fur jackets and mukluks and posing with harpoons. One.....
![Locomotive photo archive.] Photographs; Porte Feuille [cover-titles]. Boston, Providence Railroad](/pictures/thumb/5490_1.jpg?v=1575040057)
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.....
A photo album documenting a 1905 western tour undertaken by a Czech American from Chicago who was active in the Freethinkers Movement. Adolf Hrusa was one of many Czechs who belonged to the Freethinkers Movement (or Society of Free-Thinkers), an organization that split from the Catholic Church as a result.....
![Photo album of a Massachusetts family wintering in southern California.]. Col. John E. Parker](/pictures/thumb/6985_1.jpg?v=1631220304)
An extensive pre-WWII photo album offering a multi-faceted portrait of the California scene between the wars, compiled by a family of wintering easterners. Hailing from Rocky Neck, Gloucester, Mass., Col. John E. Parker and his family appear to have spent a many of their winters in Pasadena, California. Documenting.....
![A set of photo albums comprising over 2000 photos taken in Japan, as well as China and Formosa]....](/pictures/thumb/5867.jpg?v=1595280028)
A stunning and important set of eight photo albums documenting Japanese life, scenery, and culture, as well as the activities of an American expatriate in Japan and the foreign community to which he belonged. Also included are images of China, Hong Kong, and Formosa (Taiwan). These albums, compiled and.....
A photo album presented to noted Maine lawyer Philip F. Chapman to commemorate his participation in the 1926 "Maine to Southland Pilgrimage," a trip undertaken by a Maine trade delegation to the American South led by then Governor R. Owen Brewster (who was also Chapman's law partner). Chapman was a......
![Glacier National Park photo album]. Unknown compiler, postcard photographer T. J. Hileman](/pictures/thumb/7062_1.jpg?v=1630879084)
An impressive Glacier National Park photo album, apparently compiled by a woman during a visit in the 1920s, providing ample documentation of the park’s extraordinary natural beauty and early buildings, as well as the compiler’s peregrinations, various companions, people encountered along the way, etc. Mounted at the beginning of.....
A scarce and vivid photographic portrait of Calcutta as seen through the eyes of an American G.I. 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.....