With 406 original photographs, mostly snap-shots, laid loose inside affixed paper corner mounts over black album paper. Various sizes, 1¼x1" to 5½x9"; most are 4½x2¾". Captioned in hand, mostly a summary per page, but there are several for individual photos, as well. (Oblong album) 8x11, black pebbled cloth, bound with black lace string, “Photographs” lettered in gilt on cover, black moiré cloth pastedowns.
Personal photograph album mostly of/from California. Includes approximately 100 photographs of Yosemite National Park from 1926-28 (one a photo postcard captioned in negative “Camp Currey’s Fire Fall”); 6 of the Hetch-Hetchy Dam / Lake; 24 photos at Mt. Shasta / Shasta City area; Wawona big tree touring group with car driving through; a series “Floats from the California Diamond Jubilee Parade, Sept…1925”; League of the Cross Cadets, CA Picnic; McKinnon Institute with Hanna Boy’s Club Hike to Lake Lagunitas 1926; plus a few of: Redwood Highway, Mt. Rainer, Vancouver Island, Crater Lake, etc., ending with “Crossing Puget Sound – San Juan Islands.” Other locations identified: Mt. Hamilton, Glen Ellen, Lake Tahoe, Menlo Park, Searsville Lake, Lafayette, Ukiah, Clear Lake, etc. Throughout includes many of individuals and groups, including the original album owner. Gift inscription in front “To Elise from Crane.”
Condition:
Light soiling and edge wear to album; several photos with some expected mild fading, other occasional slight wear, 1 photo laid in loose, mostly near fine.