Photo album: late 19th-early 20th c photographs and cards

2013.213.1842

Photo album: late 19th-early 20th c photographs and cards

Photo album. Eighteen gilt-edged cardboard pages with 70 photos and three memorial cards. Cover is worn gold velvet with ornate metal hasp and decorative metal binding with clover-shaped mirror in center of cover. Album has a metal foot attached to the back to support it when opened and can be attached to a worn gold velvet covered wood and metal bookstand. Most pages hold four paper cabinet card photographs inserted in to a woodgrained paper sleeve. There are also seven tintype photos inserted in sleeves. Stamped in gold on first page is: "Patented January 23, 1894". Several of the photo cards slide in and out of their sleeves and the names of various photo studios from Maine and elsewhere are evident. (For example: C.E. Harvey, 3115 Indiana Avenue, Chicago" and "Osgood, 22 Main St., Ellsworth, ME.") Photo portraits include several GCI families of the late 19th to early 20th century. Many photographs were labeled on looseleaf in modern times by an unknown hand including: Aunt Asinith Spurling; Rev. Charles Howard; Capt. George Bunker; Mrs. George Bunker; George E. Bunker, July '9;, Mrs. Frederick Lord; Samuel Bulger; John Bulger; Mr. Seth Rice; Mrs. Ida Rice; William Preble; Mrs. William Preble; Percy Bunker; Alfred Bulger; Ralph Bulger; Capt. William Bulger and wife; Florence Mildred Bunker; George Edward; Gil Hamor; Frances Spurling; Elton Bunker; Leslie Bunker; Mrs. Harriet Bunker; Mrs. Grace Bunker; Alice Bulger; Johnny and Filmore Steele; Mr. and Mrs. Will Young; Rose Ladd; Edna and Alfred Ladd; Lina and Alfred Ladd; Polly Bulger; Ralph Bulger; John H. Pressey; George and Harriet Bunker; Ida/Clara/Leslie Bunker; John Hamor; Nettie Stanley; Mrs. Lydia Bunker; and Thomas Bunker. (Digital images of individual album pages were made.)

Paper

11.5"L x 3"W x 9"H