[Snapshots, Albert R. Koch, family and friends]
Bound volume
Unidentified
Maker
[Snapshots, Albert R. Koch, family and friends]
ca. 1937
Bound volume with gelatin silver prints
Overall: 9.3 x 13.3 x 3 cm (3 11/16 x 5 1/4 x 1 3/16 in.)
Gift of Joseph R. Struble, 2011
DescriptionGreen fabric covered "accordion style" album containing 26 gelatin silver snapshots. The small, rectangular album can be unfolded and viewed from either short end, revealing 14 black and white images, mounted 1 per page when opened from the right, and 12 images from a left-opened viewing. The album can also be laid out end-to-end. Included is a series of 7 images that document a small dog "Brownie" belonging to the album maker's uncle, Msgr. Joseph R. Koch, an army Catholic chaplain who had returned from service in the Philippines in 1937. The images show the dog, (who had been shipped in a crate from the Philippines), shortly after he was released in the driveway of the Rochester home of Mae and Charles Voelkl. There are also several images that relate to Msgr. Koch's next assignment at Fort Benning, Georgia. Several images are related to the album's maker, Albert R. Koch (1915-2008) and his position as manager of the Hart's grocery store on Thurston Ave (one of over 100 small, self-serving stores established by Alfred Hart 1876-1936) in Rochester NY, including a window display of canned goods. The album is in very good condition.
Inscriptions album recto (embossed in gold, gold rubbed away): ALBUM
album verso (embossed in gold, gold rubbed away): MADE IN JAPAN
album verso (embossed in gold, gold rubbed away): MADE IN JAPAN
