![[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...
![[Photo album documenting the Estes Park, Colorado.]. Frank E. Baker, photog.](/pictures/thumb/4465_1.jpg?v=1523475202)
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 Lake...
![[Pair of American Scientific Expedition Photo Albums]. Erasmus D. Preston, compiler.](/pictures/thumb/2878_1.jpg?v=1506032700)
A pair of photo albums documenting two US Government sponsored expeditions tracking solar eclipses in the 1880s, compiled by Erasmus D. Preston, a member of both expeditions. The first of these, undertaken in 1883, sailed aboard the USS Hartford to the remote Pacific atoll Caroline Island with the intention of...
![[The Assam Rifles Securing the Frontier, 1954–55.]. K. S. RAI, Lt. Col.](/pictures/thumb/4500_1.jpg?v=1522248754)
Three typescript field reports, documenting pacification missions by the Indian Army in the frontier regions of Nagaland, Kameng, and Subansiri, 1954–55, illustrated with original photographs and manuscript maps. Offered here is a fascinating collection combining Lt. Rai’s journals with his formal field reports documenting the geography, ethnography and social-political...
![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...
