Views from Romania and Bulgaria
Bound volume
Unidentified
Maker
Views from Romania and Bulgaria
1894
Bound volume with collodion silver or gelatin silver prints
Overall (closed): 6 9/16 × 8 11/16 × 1 3/8 in. (16.6 × 22 × 3.5 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
DescriptionAlbum containing gelatin or collodion silver prints made in the vicinity of Filiasi in Southwest Romania (near Craiova), July 23 and 24, 1894. These are identified as the work of a photographer employed by D. Heitler and Co. Includes many group portraits of workers in the field with farm equipment (identified as Plano Company Machines), local cemetery, and churches. Hand-written narrative describes many of the images. Album in bound in leather with debossed gold lettering.
Inscriptions Debossed in gold on front cover, C: VIEWS \ FROM \ Roumania [sic] and Bulgaria \ PRESENTED BY H.C. STONE TO W.H. JONES \ 1894
Debossed in gold on applied label inside front cover, C: COMPLIMENTS OF \ JACOBS, COLES & CO.
Stamped in purple on verso of front flyleaf, TC: W.H. JONES \ LIBRARY.
Inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf, BRC: 13ws9N \ A-6
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on recto of back flyleaf, TL: NA Korach LA \ 11-1947-OIEr \ Boyer.
Debossed in gold on applied label inside front cover, C: COMPLIMENTS OF \ JACOBS, COLES & CO.
Stamped in purple on verso of front flyleaf, TC: W.H. JONES \ LIBRARY.
Inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf, BRC: 13ws9N \ A-6
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on recto of back flyleaf, TL: NA Korach LA \ 11-1947-OIEr \ Boyer.
