[Travelogue of Summer Holiday in Switzerland]
Bound volume
[Travelogue of Summer Holiday in Switzerland]
August 1898
Bound volume with gelatin silver, collotype, and letterpress prints
Overall: 5 3/4 × 7 1/4 × 1 in. (14.6 × 18.4 × 2.5 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1977.0446.0001-0061
DescriptionLeather bound pre-manufactured album consisting of sixty-three mounted prints. Individual photographs are accompanied by inscriptions in black ink specifiying their location. Photographs were taken during a summer holiday trip to Switzerland with Frederick Ives and his first wife, Mary Elizabeth Olmstead. Assembled as a travelogue of snapshots and ephemera depicting the landscape, architecture, and street scenes at places such as Andermatt, Thun, Geneva and ending in the port of Queenstown, Ireland. In addition, a photograph of Frederick Ives with "the color camera" is included.
