Description: Description: A set of Grand Tour/Tour of Europe/European vacation photo albums from a local estate here in the Philadelphia area. Each volume is uniformly bound in quarter black leather with leather tips and green cloth. Endpapers are marbled, and each page is attached to a parchment hinge, so the bindings are still solid. The albums seem to document two trips to Europe around 1905. The shorter one is covered in the album labeled 1905 CURRAN on the spine, the longer trip fills the remaining four volumes. The photos are arranged geographically, but I haven't yet worked out what the order of the volumes is. Each photo is labeled with a hand-typed caption in the lower margin. On the whole, the photos are of excellent quality, but there are enough badly-framed or out of focus shots printed to make it clear these were the work of an amateur photographer who (fortunately for us) didn't edit themselves. These came from an estate sale at Chestnutwood, one of the few surviving Delaware River mansions along the west bank of the river. The estate, located off Tennis Ave in Bensalem, was constructed by Dr George Fox in the mid-19th c and remained in his family after his death in 1886. I suspect these albums came from some of his descendants; the same group of people show up throughout the albums, and the gentleman who is clearly the head of the group has a close resemblance to Dr Fox, and may be his son, George Fox, Jr. I haven't yet done a total count, but the smallest volume has 85 prints in it, so there are something over 500 prints in these five volumes. The locations visited in the volumes are as follows: CURRAN 1905Crossing the Atlantic on the Kronprinz WilhelmFrance-ParisFountainbleauToursMonte CarloItaly- NaplesAmalfi CoastPompeii Rome (Vatican)VeniceGermany- NurembergCarlsbadBerlinPotsdamHome on the Kaiser Wilhelm II ENGLAND & WALESCrossing the Atlantic on the "Campania"London"Kitchener's reception" (Lord Kitchener returned to London in July 1902)Warwick CastleDurham CastleDurham CathedralChester CathedralLincolnLincoln CathedralElyYorkStratford Isle of WightBatters-y-CoedSwollen FallsCarnarvon CastleConway CastleLlanberis FRANCE MONTE CARLOCrossing to CalaisParis"Madagascar Village" (maybe a holdover from the 1900 Exposition Universale?)VersaillesFountainbleauChaumontBloisTronvilleDivesRennesMarsiellesMonte CarloInnsbruckAustrian Tryol ITALYRome- St Peters & VaticanColiseumForum etcAlbanoAricciaFlorenceNaples PompeiiSorrentoCapriAmalfi CoastLake ComoLake MaggioreLake Lugano GERMANY BELGIUM HOLLANDNurembergBaden BadenStuttgartAugsburgBrugesOstendAmsterdam Size: Each album is 9.25" X6.25", each photo is 6.5" X 4.375" Condition: Each volume has had photographs removed by trimming them along the parchment hinges, always in groups. Some internal soiling, and some light water stains at corners in some voumes, but only one loose page/image among the five volumes. Wear to the bindings, especially to the leather at the corners, some surface cracking to leather on spines. Shipping weight is 12.0 lbs. Shipping and insurance will be $30.00 to any street address in the contiguous US. We are always happy to combine shipping at actual cost. Please feel free to ask any questions you have about this item and please check out our other listings! EST:MNC9.7527.03.22
Price: 4000 USD
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
End Time: 2024-09-27T05:21:10.000Z
Shipping Cost: 30 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Size: 4 x 6 in
Production Technique: Platinum Print
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Material: Cardboard, Leather, Paper
Theme: Travel
Format: Album
Type: Photograph Album
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Antique: Yes
Number of Photographs: 500
Vintage: Yes
Subject: Tourism
Year of Production: 1905
Image Color: Black & White
Time Period Manufactured: 1900-1924
Unit of Sale: Set
