PHOTOS: Two photograph albums.
[Americana: vernacular photo albums]. Two Photographic Albums circa. 1925-1955 chronicling fashion and style over 30 years. [New York City, Scarsdale etc.): [1925 1955). 2 vols, 8vo, 6 stiff cardboard leaves bearing just over 100 photographs, each with notation on the verso indicating place, date and occasionally other people within the frame. Bindings show rubbing, joints with some tidy repair; backstrips likewise mended at foot and crown. Very good.
These two classic photo albums record one girl's America from the middle of the Jazz Age to the end of the Korean conflict, tracing the course of her life from childhood at 170 East 17th Street NY (about next door to where B&B Rare Books is today), school, the suburbs (Scarsdale), marriage in 1942, right up to the birth of her first child in the 50s. Exceptional social documents for anyone interested in period art, architecture, clothing, social norms and the “everyday lives” of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
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