An informative and attractive album depicting life—theatrical life in particular—at this now defunct women’s college on the Hudson River in the early twentieth century. Originally established as Mrs. Dow’s School in 1903 at Briarcliff Lodge, a premier resort hotel in the Hudson Valley, in the late 1910s the institution.....
A fine album documenting a visit by company officials or investors to the Murray Mogridge Mine in Maisonville Township, Ontario, Canada, a site consisting of gold-bearing quartz veins. Prior to 1914, the Dane Copper Mining Company drilled a fifty foot shaft on the site, ultimately abandoning operations. From 1917 to.....
A group of albums and loose photos compiled by a psychiatric nurse who worked at the second government-run psychiatric hospital in Maryland. Only the second of its kind in Maryland, Springfield Hospital Center was established in 1896 and relieved its overflowing predecessor, the Spring Grove Hospital Center. Its grounds had.....
An appealing and historic photo album documenting the first continuous circumnavigation completed by a cruise ship, with a fine selection of large images, mainly of Asian subjects. Lasting some 130 days, the cruise documented in this album was undertaken by Cunard’s passenger liner Laconia, which departed from New York on.....
A striking promotional photo album extensively documenting the operations of the American Steel Company, including many interesting labor scenes. This album consists of both exterior and interior views of the American Steel Company's factory and operations, embracing the manufacturing of steel products, the packaging process, and the scrap process. Documenting.....
![Item #5864 Our Stay At The Flying V [cover-title]. L. Austin, compiler](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5864_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1585670404)
A photo album comprising 181 images documenting a wealthy 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.....
![Item #6148 [1920s Hawaii photo album with “The Big Kahuna” content.]. Ray Jerome Baker,...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6148.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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.....
![Item #3662 [Cover title:] Japanese Russian War 1904. [A personal album of hand-captioned...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3662_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1560463357)
A significant and captivating photographic archive recording the first modern war from the perspective of an important figure in its documentation, pioneering American war correspondent and photojournalist Richard Barry. This remarkable archive contains half stereographic photographs taken and captioned by Barry during the Russo-Japanese War, some of which illustrate his.....
![Item #5692 [Beppo Wallenda Circus Tour photo album.]. Beppo, compilers Mary Wallenda](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5692_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1580334844)
A delightful photo album evidently compiled by Beppo and Mary Wallenda, chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the U.S. Vividly depicted in this album is the world of European and American circuses and traveling circus troupes with a mixture of publicity shots and intimate candid photos.....
A scarce published album of aerial views of Nantucket showing the town and island in the 1920s. Evidently published at least in part to generate interest in Nantucket real estate, this album by a popular Nantucket photographer documents the island in a series of aerial views taken in 1926. The.....
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.....
![Item #4607 [A mammoth album of circus photographs]. James V. Chloupek, compiler](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4607_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1560463873)
An extraordinary album of over 1000 extensively captioned photographs evidently compiled by circus devotee, collector, and amateur photographer James Chloupek or someone close to him, chronicling the American circus scene in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly around the time of World War II. This remarkable album captures.....
An unusually decorative and lively photo album documenting the recreational and romantic life of a group of central Illinois friends in the early 20th Century. This album is striking for its attractive, neatly accomplished manuscript captions and illuminations—with cobwebs and other patterns and devices—in white ink, enhancing a lively.....
![Item #7378 [Album of Northern California lumbering real photo postcards.]. A. W. Ericson, J. H....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7378_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1648594504)
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 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.....
![Item #4560 [Photo album of houses designed by Cleveland architect Harlen E. Shimmin]. T. Meachem,...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4560_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1661974326)
A photo album documenting some fifteen homes in Cleveland designed by architect Harlen Shimmin, likely used by him in his office to show prospective clients. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Harlen Elmer Shimmin (1874–1941) began his professional career as a mechanical engineer but by 1904 had become a practicing architect. The.....
![Item #5845 [Livingston, Montana and Yellowstone Photo Album]. Joseph F. Scherieble, W. S. Berry,...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5845_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1579630224)
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.....
![Item #7377 [Album of Prescott, Arizona mining photos and postcards.]. Kaelin Family Signis Kaelin](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7377_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1648593084)
An engaging album of photos and postcards documenting the activities of a community of Swiss immigrant miners in Prescott, Arizona. In 1912, the newly established state of Arizona supported some 445 active mines, seventy-two concentrating facilities, and eleven smelters. This album documents the activities of a group of Swiss immigrants.....
![Item #5853 The Log Book of the Northern Cavern and Fell Club 1934. [cover-title]: Cavern and Fell...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5853_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1591046230)
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......
![Item #7976 [Spanish-American War era photo album with interesting military camp content.] Binder...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7976_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1681142045)
An extensive portrait of New York’s 8th Infantry Regiment while stationed at Camp Thomas in Chickamauga National Military Park, Georgia during the Spanish-American War, including many lively scenes, as recorded by well-connected officer Captain Charles P. Staubach. The 8th was one of twelve New York National Guard infantry regiments federalized.....
![Item #7062 [Glacier National Park photo album]. Unknown compiler, postcard photographer T. J....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7062_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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 the.....
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.....
![Item #4099 [Harvard University Class Album, Class of 1872]. George Kendall Warren, photog](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4099_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1588942744)
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.....
![Item #7889 Harvard College Class of 1854 [cover title.]. John Whipple, photographer](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7889_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1681154779)
The first photographically-illustrated Harvard class album to include outdoor views, and an important example of early American paper photography. Photographs were first used to illustrate Harvard class albums beginning with the class of 1852. Boston photographer John Whipple, the official Harvard class photographer from 1852 to 1859, made daguerreotypes of.....
A delightfully vivid vernacular photo album depicting ten years of summer camps, college, vacations, and outings—in Maine, Cape Cod, Montana, and elsewhere—of a girl and her family from White Plains, New York. The album also includes a number of striking photos relating to aerial photography and naval aviation in 1926.....