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126 original silverprint photographs, mounted on leaves within a limp leather album, labeled Photographs in gilt on front cover. Title leaf is hand-lettered in white, "Mazama Annual Album Mt. Jefferson Oregon, Aug. 4-19, 1917." Photographs vary in size from the snapshot at 8.3x6 cm. (3¼x2¼") or the reverse up to 12.3x17.2 cm. (4¾x6¾") or the reverse. * Plus another 33 original albumen photographs of Roy J. Davidson (posing with a golf club), as well as shots of the Junior Rose Festival, plus some views of the coast taken by Davidson in 1933.

Views of the campground, the mountainside, lakes, waterfalls and of encounters with bear cubs are all captured within this photograph album. Most photographs are captioned in white ink by Ohio native Roy J. Davidson, who partook in the Mazama Annual Outing. Also includes some clipped printed photographs (from brochures or other publications) mounted alongside photographs. The second part of the album contains albumen photographs of a few sights and scenes of Oregon, including "Old Ironsides," Salem Capitol Grounds, and the Junior Rose festival of 1933. One of 6 photograph albums produced by the amateur photographer Roy J. Davidson to be offered in today's auction. At least one photograph by Davidson was published in The Photographic Times, in Vol. XLII, No. 4, 1910.