Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 512

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(PHOTOGRAPHY--ALBUM.) Memoirs of Other Days. Family album with over 200 photographs of various size, as well as postcards and other mementos of travel; first couple of pages loose, but otherwise in excellent condition. should be seen. Vp, circa 19 teens-1920's

Additional Details

An exceptional family album, beautifully and whimsically captioned throughout. Chronicles every day events in the life of a black family in the days just prior to and following World War I. Each page carries a little printed "saying" in addition to whatever remark or captions there might be, for example: "Dig the well before you are thirsty" It is apparent that this was a military family and there are numerous photos of people in uniform; one however is rather odd. A group photograph titled "L.M. Corps-Camp Little." Pasted at the foot of the page is the following: "We pardon easily a wrong in which we participate."