[Amateur snapshot album]
Bound volume
Unidentified
Maker
[Amateur snapshot album]
1899-1900
Bound volume with cyanotypes and gelatin silver prints
Overall: 5 3/4 × 12 13/16 × 1 9/16 in. (14.6 × 32.6 × 4 cm)
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2008
DescriptionUnique album, adapted from manufactured Chinese notebook, each page a piece of double folder lightweight paper with small diagonal slits to hold the square photographs in place. Album cover is also of lightweight paper with Chinese characters (calligraphy), in ink and colors. Album pages are effectively bound together with string.
Album contains primarily cyanotype snapshots documenting travel to places in Colorado (Manitou, Royal Gorge), Utah (Salt Lake City), and California (Monterey, Riversides, Redlands). Included are images of a group of nuns. At back of album is a statement signed by Capt. G. M. Boynton "The day I broke the Pike's Peak record, October '99." Ink captions identify some of the images. A small number of images are loose, housed together in a sleeve and numbered according to their original place between the pages in the album.
(323) photographs, mostly cyanotypes, some gelatin silver prints, including (14) loose prints
Album contains primarily cyanotype snapshots documenting travel to places in Colorado (Manitou, Royal Gorge), Utah (Salt Lake City), and California (Monterey, Riversides, Redlands). Included are images of a group of nuns. At back of album is a statement signed by Capt. G. M. Boynton "The day I broke the Pike's Peak record, October '99." Ink captions identify some of the images. A small number of images are loose, housed together in a sleeve and numbered according to their original place between the pages in the album.
(323) photographs, mostly cyanotypes, some gelatin silver prints, including (14) loose prints
