Album-contemporain: contenant les biographies sommaires de trois cents des principaux personnages de notre époque
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Album-contemporain: contenant les biographies sommaires de trois cents des principaux personnages de notre époque

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Bound volume

Justin Henri Lallier

Maker
French, b. 1823

Album-contemporain: contenant les biographies sommaires de trois cents des principaux personnages de notre époque

1865
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall: 7 1/16 × 11 1/4 × 1 in. (18 × 28.5 × 2.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1972.0300.0001-0052
DescriptionContains three hundred postage stamp-sized albumen silver print portraits of sovereigns, princes and princesses, academics, artists, clergymen, politicians, and physicians and scientists of the day, each of which is accompanied by a brief biography written by Lallier, with alphabetical table of contents at back of album. Bound in blue leather with decorations stamped in gilt and blind.
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on title page recto, T: Lincoln, page 74 2eme édition de l'album contemporain
Inscribed in pencil, title page recto, BC: 1865
Stamped in black ink, title page recto, BC: Eastman Historical \ Photographic Collection
Inscribed in ink, scalloped oval label on page 7, TL: Collection \ G. Cromer
Stamped in red ink, on page 9 and page 114, BC: IMP/GEH

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