Photograph Album: White House, Capital Building, Canadian Scenes, Ice Boat, The Iron Steamboat Company. [1890].
Oblong quarto measuring 7 1⁄2” x 11 1⁄4” Circa late 1890’s. Black cloth over boards. Cover blind stamped with deep debossed lettering which at one time was gilt, but the gold has worn away. Spine is detached and worn away. Leaves are black paper over boards with window openings. The black paper in many places is chipped. Fifty-six (56) 3 1⁄4” x 5 1⁄2” black and white photographs. A family photo album which contain scenes of home and travel, including Washington D.C., at the end of the 19th century. The photo album itself still has the sales label inside the front cover from Frederick Loesser & Co., a large department store in Brooklyn, New York (founded in 1870). Included in this album is a faded photograph of the south view of the White House taken across the park; the foreground of this photo is not faded. Another photograph shows the United States Capital Building. A detached page in the back of the album features a house flying the Union Jack, which suggest the photograph is of a home in Canada. Other photographs feature scenes consistent with Canada: an “ice boat” – a glider on skis – on a frozen lake and other winter scenes such as a horse pulled sleigh. Many photographs of the waterfront and shipbuilding. Several photographs of Steamboats including one clearly marked “The Iron Steamboat Company.” The Iron Steamboat Company (1881-1932) provided ferry service between Manhattan and Coney Island in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The original fleet consisted of seven iron-hulled steamboats, each named after a constellation--the Cygnus, the Cepheus, the Cetus, the Pegasus, the Perseus, the Sirius and the Taurus.
Price: $750.00