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Album of Professional Views of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition

1901ref. 61480N.p. Kilbourn Wisconsin ca 1901. Oblong octavo 6-1/2" x 9". Bound album of 17 mounted silver-gelatin photographs most 5" x 7" two smaller on heavy pasteboard mounts. Captioned but one; unsigned; apparently the work of a talented amateur or possibly a professional photographer see note below. Binding worn with losses at spine ends and corners; internally quite good though one photograph has fallen victim to the work of an infant graffiti artist fortunately working in pencil; the image is not entirely defaced; another image the first in the album is slightly faded and aged. Overall Very Good and apparently complete as assembled. Of the seventeen views eight are of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo New York. The remainder but for one a view of Niagara Falls are scenes in Wisconsin which would appear to be the photographer's home. Though unsigned the work is of a constistently high quality printed from large-format negatives suggesting a talented and well-heeled amateur working with a view camera. The only place-name referenced other than the Exposition is Kilbourn Wisconsin a mill town on the Wisconsin River that changed its name to Wisconsin Dells in 1931. Kilbourn was the home of the celebrated photographer and publisher of stereoviews H.H. Bennett and the Wisconsin views herein bear a very strong resemblance - both compositionally and in terms of overall quality - to Bennett's work. But while it is tempting to attribute these photographs to Bennett the one biographical detail we have found in the album - an image captioned "Our Boys Playground" - positively eliminates Bennett from consideration; he had two young children at the time of these photos but they were both girls. Amateur 20th-century Exposition albums filled with small-format tourist snapshots are abundant as are published views by professional photographers. But we have seen very few examples like this one: a hand-assembled album of exceptional well-printed views intended only for private consumption. The photographs are all but one hand-captioned in ink as follows: 1. "Court of Fountains" Pan American Expo 2. "The Narrows of the Wisconsin River" 3. "The Old Mill at Kilbourn Wis." 4. "Streets of Venice Pan Amer. Exp." 5. "Down the Lagoon" Pan American Expo 6. "Triumphal Bridge from Illinois Building" Pan American Expo 7. "Niagara above the Falls" 8. "Ohio and Illinois Buildings Pan Amer Exp." 9. "On the Wisconsin River" 10. "Our Wisconsin Farm Buildings" 11. "On the Pan Amer. Exposition Grounds" 12. "Temple of Music where President McKinley was Shot" 13. "The Midway Pan Amer. Exp." 14. "On Littler's Creek" 15. "The Jaws of the Dells of the Wisconsin" with view of The Dell Queen a tourist steamboat 16. Uncaptioned 17. "Our Boys Playground unknown

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ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS DOCUMENTING A BRITISH COUPLE'S 1927 JOURNEY ACROSS AMERICA

1927ref. 44597N. P.: Privately published 1927. 1927. 1927. Original photograph album. Hardcover. Contains 27 black-and-white photographs mounted behind pre-cut frames in leaves of heavy green stock. Bound in 5 3/4" x 7 1/2" green cloth with the words "Photo Snaps" on the front cover. Inside the cover is a handwritten description of the couple's travel itinerary June 8 to September 25 1927 beginning with: "Sailed from Southampton for New York June 8 1927 U.S.S. Coronia." After docking in New York they proceed to Boston and "New England cities" then back to NYC. From there they take the B & O Railroad to Philadelphia Washington and Chicago a rail journey that takes two weeks. From Chicago they proceed to Springfield Illinois where they visit Lincoln's Tomb then on to St. Louis Kansas City Los Angeles and San Francisco. By September 11th they take the train back from the West Coast to Chicago then return to NYC sailing for Plymouth England on September 16 aboard the USS Caronia. The compilers an elderly couple are together in one photograph and the man appears in several later pictures. They visit three colleges on their journey: Harvard University of Chicago and Stanford taking one photograph at each. They also visit Mt. Diablo in Clayton California and there are six photos of Mt. Diablo Devil's Pulpit Mark Twain's Cabin etc. Other scenes include five of "American Indians" taken at Albuquerque and environs: three depicting Native Americans selling "curios" and two showing "Homes of American Indians Taken while on the Train." The homes are ranch-style houses. There is one photograph of "American Negro at his home" showing a man in a suit with a child and the photo is signed "Shelby Freeman" Also the couple visit "the Ranch" in Pittsburg CA where they see their "cub" a toddler—grandchild—posed in his walker and their son or daughter and his/her spouse "the Ranchers". Very good condition. Privately published, 1927. hardcover