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(O.C. CONKLING, PHOTOGRAPHER) Album produced and compiled by O. C. Conkling, St. Louis, Missouri, with 9 remarkable photographs of the exterior and interior of his photography studio and building. The photographs depict a meticulous setting, with a beautifully-appointed waiting room containing Arts and Crafts furniture, stunning figurative tile work and lovely portraits lining the walls; a simple ante room; a studio with a large-format view camera, fireplace and skylight, and children's toy horses carefully composed in the frame; prints on their drying racks with women working at tables; and the photographs being printed outdoors on the roof deck. Silver prints, 7 1/2x9 1/4 inches (19.1x23.5 cm.), on sheets measuring 9 3/4x12 inches (24.8x30.5 cm.), with Conkling's embossed hand stamp on recto. Oblong 4to, gray stiff wrappers, with Conkling's calligraphic signature, logo, and address, in white ink, on recto. Circa 1910
