[1939 New York World's Fair / Washington, D.C. Photo Album]
Two-part souvenir photo album of a trip to the 1939 World's Fair in New York City, followed by photographs of Washington D.C., Mount Vernon, and Annapolis, MD in 1940.
Two-part souvenir photo album of a trip to the 1939 World's Fair in New York City, followed by photographs of Washington D.C., Mount Vernon, and Annapolis, MD in 1940.
Album of storage tanks, agitators, and other liquid-related metal machinery photos compiled by the manufacturer, which — judging by the locations of most of its clients — was located somewhere in the Midwestern United States.
Original and unusually unified photograph album detailing the birth and early life of a midcentury house outside Binghamton, New York.
A petite and uncommonly ornamented vernacular album, with intricate border designs on most pages in a variety of styles, borrowing considerable Art Deco and Art Nouveau influence.
Carefully assembled and curated French wedding album likely dating from the mid 1920s, including portraits of the bride and groom, the wedding party, family and guests, with two shots of the reception.
A pair of carefully assembled albums, possibly compiled for official use, the majority of the photos in both albums recording the aftermath of a botched Allied bombardment in the Hague on March 3, 1945 that claimed the lives of 511 civilians and left over 20,000 homeless.
Original photograph album composed with great care, containing forty photos of British train engines mounted one to a page and captioned in a neat hand.
Draft production binder used in creation and revision of a 1929 catalogue of electric lighting fixtures and accessories, belonging to Lauritz W. Andersen, industrial designer and owner of The Waterbury Metal Wares Company.
Affectionate photo album memorializing the mostly harmless exploits of an Army coterie of proto-Beatniks, stationed in peacetime Europe and making the most of it.
A copy of "Integral," the Illinois Institute of Technology yearbook for 1900, repurposed as a photo album and memorializing the domestic life of a close family group.
Sketchbook album from the early 1940s, documenting a young boy's self-guided attempts to develop facility in cartooning.
A handsome album compiled by Colonel Robert Theodore Cronau (1896-1996) during his career in the Army Air Corps.
Well-executed research collection compiled by United States Forest Service entomologist Richard H.
An artful set of photographs elegantly documenting (entirely from the air) a single plane flight aboard a Lockheed Super Electra from Seattle to Chicago.
Photo album devoted to three young women and their friends, from rural springtime scenes of 1942 to vacationing on the beaches of Nantucket in '44, to playing in the snowy Boston Public Gardens and riding bicycles through Franklin Park of 1945.
Hand-accented gift scrapbook of religious iconography created and presented by Julia Morin to her brother, Reverend William Morin, upon the occasion of his ordination.
An excellent annotated album of bull-fighting by a noted writer.
A fascinating selection of Sex Pistols fandom assembled by one Eileen Walsh, who the provenance suggests was a sixteen years old Belfast teen when she began.