[Portrait album]
Bound volume
Unidentified
Maker
[Portrait album]
ca. 1895
Bound volume with albumen silver, collodion silver and gelatin silver prints
Overall (closed): 13 1/2 × 8 1/16 × 2 3/4 in. (34.3 × 20.5 × 7 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1975.0104.0001-0032
DescriptionAlbum containing 46 carte-de-visite, 16 cabinet card, and 2 loose card mounted portraits. Prints are albumen, gelatin silver and collodion silver. Images were produced at a variety of studios in Frankfurt, Germany. Album cover is ornate in the Art Deco style and features a metal cast image of a woman. Binding is brown leather with debossed decorative elements in the covers and spine. The album is closed by one large metal clasp.
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on recto of back flyleaf, TRC: Gift - From Nate Lambert \ sent from Germany \ Aug - 1945 \ Boyer
