THE HOME OF DICK & HANK DWYER [Photo Album of the Construction of a House]
Original and unusually unified photograph album detailing the birth and early life of a midcentury house outside Binghamton, New York.
Original and unusually unified photograph album detailing the birth and early life of a midcentury house outside Binghamton, New York.
Canadian Girl Guide photo album from the 1952 Girl Guide National Camp gathering, held at Ottawa's Connaught Ranges, and whose theme in 1952 was "Our Canadian Heritage."
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.
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.
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.
Photographs of the Northwestern University medical school campus, buildings, treatment facilities, and a number of patients posed in various therapeutic positions or rehabilitative devices.
Booking photographs of several dozen men, most taken in the mid to late 1970s.
Collection of original photographs, the majority dated, showing a portion of a Yonkers sugar refinery under construction in great detail.
Large archive centered around an album of resettlement, family life, and theatre performances within Latvian Displaced Persons Camps in Germany following WWII — majority of views likely of the camp at Augsburg, judging from signage and countryside terrains.
Photographs of student printers and instructors, nearly all from the New York School of Printing, most dated from the mid-1950s through the late 1960s.
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.
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.
Collection of photographs of death scenes in and around the English county of Cheshire, used for investigative purposes.
The personal photo album and scrapbook of one George King, a Pasadena-based actor whose most consistent gig at the time was impersonating Mr. T of "A Team" and Rocky fame.
A carefully assembled and impressively detailed set of photos and bios of contemporary American and British actors, singers, and athletes, about 42 of whom are men, and 23 women.
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.
Well-assembled pre-war photo album compiled by an American Lutheran missionary to Japan, whose face appears consistently in the majority of the photographs.
Striking collection of photographs showing many carefree, recreational moments of wartime: soldiers sitting around at the barracks, reading and smoking; and many photos of Vietnamese acquaintances across the album, such as women lounging at the base library.
A evocative collection of photographs taken and compiled by Robert H. Tucker (while he was a student at MIT) of his high school career at Poughkeepsie's Arlington High School, where he graduated with the class of 1950.
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.
Carefully composed personal photo album from an SDSC alumnus, memorializing the Mechanical Building, North and Central Buildings, the gymnasium, President's residence, and several campus overview, along with his work on a surveying crew and several family portraits.
Small collection of photography and film-related advertising dating circa 1920s. An interesting collection, representing a number of advances in photographic technology, particularly considered in the context of the rise of the cinema.
A skilled and moving portrait of a Native American family, probably Mojave, captioned with a typically racist title along the top edge.
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.
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.