World's Columbian Exposition
Bound volume
Unidentified
Maker
World's Columbian Exposition
1893
Bound volume with albumen silver and gelatin silver prints
Overall (closed): 6 1/2 × 8 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (16.5 × 21.6 × 6.4 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1976.0096.0001-0068
DescriptionContains (41) Kodak # 3 (or possibly Kodak #4) snapshots, and (21) commercial photographs (gelatin silver printing out paper and a few albumen prints). Views include spectators, buildings, pavilions, lagoon, Viking ship, and other attractions of the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition (aka The Chicago World's Fair) in 1893. Album is bound in blue and black leather with debossed gold lettering. Back cover is loose.
Inscriptions Debossed in gold on front cover, C: PHOTOGRAPHS
Inscribed in pencil inside front cover, TLC: LJ Otis Shelf 13
Printed on applied label inside front cover, TRC: The MOREHOUSE \ PHOTO ALBUM, \ PATENTED. \ U.S.A. \ Canada, \ England, \ France, \ Germany, \ Austria.
Inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf, TLC: LJ Otis
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on verso of front flyleaf, TL: From \ Otis - \ Chgo
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on recto of back flyleaf, TC: Medwick Chgo \ 3/1950 \ IEr \ Boyer
Inscribed in pencil inside front cover, TLC: LJ Otis Shelf 13
Printed on applied label inside front cover, TRC: The MOREHOUSE \ PHOTO ALBUM, \ PATENTED. \ U.S.A. \ Canada, \ England, \ France, \ Germany, \ Austria.
Inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf, TLC: LJ Otis
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on verso of front flyleaf, TL: From \ Otis - \ Chgo
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on recto of back flyleaf, TC: Medwick Chgo \ 3/1950 \ IEr \ Boyer
