Album contemporain européen: Biographies historiques avec portraits photographiques des personnages illustres du XIXe siècle

Album contemporain européen: Biographies historiques avec portraits photographiques des personnages illustres du XIXe siècle

Bound volume

Justin Henri Lallier

Maker
French, b. 1823

Justin Henri Lallier

French, b. 1823

Album contemporain européen: Biographies historiques avec portraits photographiques des personnages illustres du XIXe siècle

January 1865
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall: 6 1/2 × 9 13/16 × 1 9/16 in. (16.5 × 25 × 4 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1973.0166.0001-0090
DescriptionContains 404 albumen silver print postage stamp-sized portraits. The mass produced album was designed to accommodate the format and is organized according to categories of personnages (royalty, artists, etc.). The leaves to which the photographs are adhered is keyed to and faces a leaf of text with the corresponding biography of the pictured subject. The portraits were made by various photographers, including prominent Parisians, and have been re-formatted to postage stamp size. Bound in brown leather with decorative boards stamped in gilt and blind.
Inscriptions Tooled in gilt, on cover recto, C: ALBUM CONTEMPORAIN
Inscribed in ink, on label applied to spine, B: 05.21
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on front pastedown, T: a remettre dans ma collection de réductions photographiques. \ (Dragon, etc.)
Inscribed in pencil, on front endpaper, TR: 7-9
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on half-title page, recto, TL / TR: Daguerre, page 182 / 1ère édition de l'album-contemporain
Stamped in black ink, on title page, recto, BC: Eastman Historical \ Photographic Collection
Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on scalloped oval label applied to title page, verso, TLC: Collection \ G. Cromer

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