[Amateur Snapshot Album]
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Bound volume
Unidentified
Maker
Unidentified
Maker
[Amateur Snapshot Album]
ca. 1900
Bound volume with cyanotypes and gelatin silver prints
Overall: 14.7 x 33.1 x 5.8 cm
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2009
DescriptionUnique album, adapted from manufactured Chinese notebook, each page a piece of double folder lightweight paper with small diagonal slits to hold the square photographs in place. Album cover is also of lightweight paper with Chinese characters (calligraphy), in ink and colors. Album pages are effectively bound together with string.
Majority of images are matte gelatin silver prints of travel on Europe, including London, St. Andrews (Scotland), Rome, Pisa, Milan and Lucerne. There are some cyanotypes at the end of the album documenting a beach vacation. A small number of loose images are housed together in a sleeve and numbered according to their original place between the pages in the album.
Majority of images are matte gelatin silver prints of travel on Europe, including London, St. Andrews (Scotland), Rome, Pisa, Milan and Lucerne. There are some cyanotypes at the end of the album documenting a beach vacation. A small number of loose images are housed together in a sleeve and numbered according to their original place between the pages in the album.
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