Original Photo Album of FAIRCHILDS-EVANSVILLE-E. KY. 1938-1941 [Cover Title]

Original Photo Album of FAIRCHILDS-EVANSVILLE-E. KY. 1938-1941 [Cover Title]

[ca. 1938-1941]

A classic album of Americana with clear and sharp domestic, community, occupational and railroad themed images.

Near fine.

Price: $800.00

Original Photo Album of FAIRCHILDS-EVANSVILLE-E. KY. 1938-1941 [Cover Title]

Compiled by the Fairchilds family of Evansville, IN between 1938 and 1941, the patriarch appears to have worked in gas and oil exploration in and around the western Kentucky / southern Indiana / southern Illinois regions. Many named images of the men Fairchilds worked alongside as well as facilities located in Keensburg, IL, Centralia, IL, Cloverport, KY, and Edgar County, IL. A wonderful series includes approximately 20 interior and exterior views of a new family home located on Plaza Dr. in Evansville, and dozens of shots show downtown Evansville, its storefronts, signage, holiday festivities, and decorations. Several railroad photos and a handful from a trip to Washington, D.C. are also included. All images carefully framed with a strong aesthetic eye. Particularly striking are the many close-up portraits throughout rendered with an intimacy not typically seen in similar albums. An uncommonly well-composed and -constructed album of middle class life in the southern midwest at the tail-end of The Depression, just before the beginning of U.S. involvement in WWII.

The Object

Fairchilds, KY and Evansville, [IN]: n.p, [ca. 1938-1941]. Hardcover. Oblong folio album. Original (likely homemade) wooden covers with screw binding and brass hinges - measuring approximately 15.25" x 12". Containing 29 black paper leaves with 252 black and white, primarily snapshot photographs glue-mounted both recto and verso. Small title photograph to front cover torn, light handling wear to album exterior. A handful of images apparently perished. Otherwise about near fine throughout.

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