[Photo Album]: Early 1900s California Family

Title: [Photo Album]: Early 1900s California Family
Publication: 1900-1918

Description: Hardcover. Oblong small quarto. Measuring 11.5" x 7". Blue cloth over flexible boards with "Photographs" stamped in gilt on the front board. Contains 37 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 3" x 3" and 5" x 7", without captions. Slightly bowed front board and worn edges very good with near fine photographs. The album begins with seven photos from an early 1900s wedding which took place in a lush garden. The photos show the bride and bridesmaid walking down the aisle, the exchange of vows, and a toast of the bridal party around a large table. A final photo from this section show the newlyweds in a bridal suite sharing a loving embrace. Following the wedding the photographs document the family life of the couple until roughly 1918 with images of children, friends, and extended family posing around homes and farms. One photo shows a bustling city street, another shows a family in a field posing around an early automobile. Interspersed throughout the album are portraits of the family including one of a pretty young woman holding a fan. Laid-in next to a large photo of a cottage is a note that reads, "in the summer of 1918 I went to LA to take a 3 month class in show card writing and lived in an apartment at 1240 S. Fremont St. with my Aunt Pearl - these are some of the places we visited." This note is followed by photos of car journeys and day trips to a beach with photos of two young women in bathing costumes posing in the water. A commercial photo of two Mack Sennet bathing beauties is also included. The end of the album features pictures of the family working on a farm, as well as a child on a bicycle, and girls holding a basketball.

An interesting collection of an American family in the early 1900s including farm life and a turn of the century wedding.

Seller ID: 404698

Subject: Ephemera, Photography