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Circa: ca 1900
Condition: Used
Size: 15.5x10
Country of Origin: United States
A Victorian table album which is meant to stand on the parlor table and contains family photos. It is an outstanding album in many ways. It contains 39 photos of family and includes 16 small photos, 4 to a page, and 23 single page photos. Many of the small photos are tinypes. All occasions are celebrated from weddings to funerals, there is even a photo of a baby arrayed on a funeral couch as if sleeping. It was not an unusual custom then when so many babies died in the first year of life to take a photo of the mourned child.
This album was bought in Minnesotta and depicts a Wahpeton, North Dakota family. Names unknown.
The album is in marvelous condition. One photo border only is torn.
The album removes from its hinged support and in back is a double mirrored door which opens to reveal the religious statues and holy water font inside.
The front cover is celluloid and shows a saint, probably St. Anthony holding the Christ Child. The wooden stand and album are covered in green patterned velvet. Gilt brass hinges and corner protectors and decorative scrolls. The hinges need to be re-inserted to hold the album securely.
Elaborate and complete, this is the best I have seen of this type. 15.5x10 |
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