(VERNACULAR) Album containing approximately 1150 photographs

Sale 1907 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 1,495

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

(VERNACULAR)
Album containing approximately 1150 photographs by photographer Fred J. Pope of his extensive travels throughout Alaska, the United States, Canada, and Mexico comprising disasters such as the San Francisco earthquake, the Baltimore fire, and locomotive accidents; documentation of settlements in remote areas of Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, California, Washington, British Columbia, Mexico, Cuba, Honduras, and more; records of the native occupants performing daily tasks such as washing clothes, selling their wares at market, preparing meals or posed in their native costumes; diverse modes of transportation including steamer, ferry, horseback, wagon, etc; interspersed with photographs of family and friends. Silver prints, 7x6 and smaller, mounted 2 to 8 per page, recto, with captions, in ink, on the mounts. Folio, ½ morocco, edges worn, hinges splitting. 1899-1920

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A vivid record of an amateur photographer's travels. Pope's photographic eye was often on the money, and his pictures convey an enthusiast's love of the travel experience translated by the camera.