Souvenir de Paris
Bound volume
Unidentified
Maker
Souvenir de Paris
1865–1870
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall (closed): 6 3/8 × 9 × 1 in. (16.2 × 22.9 × 2.5 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
DescriptionAlbum containing 24 albumen silver prints of tourist sites around Paris. Printed captions identify each image. Each photograph is surrounded by a decorative border printed on the page. Album is bound in red cloth and contains gold debossed lettering and a black debossed decorative border.
Inscriptions Debossed in gold on front cover, C: SOUVENIR \ DE PARIS
Inscribed in pencil (Boyer's hand) on verso of front flyleaf, T: The fine quality smells of Blanquart Evrard-but \ The opera is finished so date is after 1865. Boyer \ After 1874 – Hôtel de Ville is completed
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on recto of back flyleaf, TRC: Manuel \ Newport RI \ 2-1949 \ IEr \ Boyer
Inscribed in pencil (Boyer's hand) on verso of front flyleaf, T: The fine quality smells of Blanquart Evrard-but \ The opera is finished so date is after 1865. Boyer \ After 1874 – Hôtel de Ville is completed
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on recto of back flyleaf, TRC: Manuel \ Newport RI \ 2-1949 \ IEr \ Boyer
