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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SPECIAL SNAPSHOT ALBUMS) Group of 4 very unusual photo albums-cum-diaries, comprising: a cyanotype album inscribed to Miss Mattie Tyler from Sophie K. Brace (1902) with 16 cyanotypes; a honeymoon album with a total of 83 silver print photographs depicting a couple's European holiday, with colorful hand-drawn designs on 11 pages (1923); a French album in which very small silver print portraits of young women or men respond to the promt, "Faites votre portrait physique" [describe yourself physically], with extensive handwritten ruminations; and a child's scrapbook entitled "My Trip to California and Mexico" (apparently an English project undertaken by one Jack Freese), with two-hole punch blue-ruled sheets containing 21 mounted snapshot silver prints, each the starting point for a short story that was transcribed in impeccable Gregg penmanship (his mother's?) (1930s). Various bindings, various sizes. 1902-1930s
accompanied by--A scrapbook with 57 cut-out reproductions entitled "The Courtship of Peter and Polly," each annotated in beautiful penmanship. Folio, purple wrappers, with a mounted hand-colored photograph of a child with garlands in her hair who is holding a posey; ties. Circa 1910. From the Collection of John Silverstein.
