(BOTANICALS) Album of 101 photographs by the accomplished ph

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Album of 101 photographs by the accomplished photographer Frank Ferguson Bluff, including lush photographs of botanicals of the Great Lakes region, some taken in a studio, but many set in various scenic parks and conservatories in Belle Isle, Michigan and Toledo, Ohio. Other imagery of the quotidian is also interspersed. Platinum prints (63) and sepia-toned silver (38) prints, in sizes up to 4 1/2x6 3/8 inches (11.4x15.2 cm.), and the reverse, tipped in, on mounts measuring 7 1/8x9 7/8 inches (18.1x25.1 cm.), with identifying captions, in white ink, on the mounts. Oblong small folio, black leatherette, with Bluff's signature, in white ink, in the interior of the front cover. 1913

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Frank Ferguson Bluff was a skilled amateur photographer, having worked for seven years in the finishing department of a photographic studio as a young man. He made his living as head of the Toledo Artificial Limb Company, but clearly had an ongoing interest in photography, and a number of the images are quite striking.