Laura Adelaide Johnson Album Part II
Bound volume
Laura Adelaide Johnson Album Part II
ca. 1900
Bound volume with platinum prints
Overall: 35.5 x 30 x 6 cm
Gift of Adelaide Clark
1979.0008.0024-0044
DescriptionAlbum consists of 21 platinum prints, approximately 19 x 12 cm., and mounted one per page on tinted plate block. Variants of several of these are in the smaller album (1979:0008:0001-23). Included are several light romantic tableaus, posed by young adult acquaintances of the photographer and sometimes titled with a literary reference. There are also woodland scenes in Pennsylvania and Michigan, (one includes the photographer holding her camera) and a series of images made of plants in the Joseph Berry greenhouse in Detroit. Album is in fair condition, however, some of the stiff board pages have come loose from their linen binding. The leather album has also been covered and lined in the interior covers in plastic kitchen "contact paper." Contains a typed biographical sketch of the photographer.
