Photograph albums
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85101196
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
A. Mercer Daniel Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2022-003
Scope and Contents
This collection is a personal photo album created by A. Mercer Daniel, a law librarian and the first African American member of the American Association of Law Libraries, documenting the 1910s–1960s with an emphasis on the 1930s. There are 216 photographs on 114 pages, mostly black and white and some sepia; most inserted into corner mounts, the rest adhesive mounted. Most photographs measure 2 ¼” x 3” to 5 ½” x 3 ½”, all are captioned. 22 photographs lacking from album and 2 with surface loss...
Dates:
1910 - 1960
Cuba Photograph Album and Journal
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4173
Overview
Part photograph album and part travel log, this album, kept by an American woman while on vacation in Havana, Cuba, in the summer of 1946.
Dates:
1946 July
Herman W. and Mattie Hesse Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: 2012-004
Abstract
One photographic album of Dr. Herman W. and Mattie Hesse’s trip to Europe aboard the S.S. Berlin in June 1930. Album contains photographs and picture postcards of famous European landmarks in England, Western Europe, and Canada.
Dates:
1930-06
I. A. Winter's Canoe Trip Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2014-002
Abstract
This collection consists of one photographic album with forty-three images recording the canoe trip through Alabama and Tennessee, by I. A. Winter in 1914.
Dates:
1914
Kenneth and Ginny Daniel Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3455
Overview
This collection consists of Daniel's family photo album.
Dates:
1890 - 2001
Lincoln Normal School Photographic Albums
Collection
Identifier: WP-2013001
Overview
This collection consists of two personal albums with photographs of teachers, administrators, and students at the Lincoln Normal School, an early African-American school in Marion, Alabama. The albums include formal group portraits, informal photographs from everyday life, and images of the school's surroundings.
Dates:
1909 - 1924
Mary Yost Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2022-011
Scope and Contents
This collection is of one photographic album of 70 pages with 270 black and white photographs assembled by Mary Yost of a group of friends and spouses who were motorcycle enthusiasts and their travels through the American southeast. Captured are images of an unofficial motorcycle club and their trips, travels, daily life in Virginia and surrounding states, and images of military men at American bases during World War II. Photographs measure between 2¾”x 2½” and 3½” x 5” and most are captioned.
Dates:
1940 - 1942
Mogiana Railway Photographic Album
Collection — Box 2022-005: [1005697225]
Identifier: 2022-005
Scope and Contents
Collection contains one photograph album from 1900 of 39 gelatin silver prints by photographer O. Sainati of Campinas-based Mogiana Railway stations, bridges, locomotives, and surrounding everyday life. The album is comprised of 39 card stock leaves with one photograph per page, mounted with original captions. The Mogiana stations focused primarily on the railway line between Jaguarina and Cravinhos in the Sao Paulo state of Brazil.
Dates:
1900
Photographic Album Depicting Brazil and Argentina
Collection
Identifier: 2021-004
Overview
One photographic album containing fifty black-and-white images depicting Lisbon Harbor, Brazil, and Argentina. The images feature two copper mines in the Catamarca region of Argentina, one owned by Samuel Lafone Quevedo and the other owned by Adolfo Carranza; as well as a sugar plantation owned by Alfredo Guzman. Other images depict various members of the Blamey family and the natural landscape of Argentina. The album appears to have been a gift from Henry (potentially Henry Davis Hoskold) to...
Dates:
1893
William F. Reekstin Photograph Albums
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4113
Overview
Nine photograph albums of William F. Reekstin, a student at the University of Alabama in the early 1930s documenting a variety of campus venues and activities.
Dates:
1933-1935
Salvation Army in India Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: 2016-004
Overview
This album consist of 199 photographs documenting Salvation Army work in India beginning of 20th Century.
Dates:
1910 - 1981; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1923
Samuel Frances Hobbs Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-005
Abstract
One photographic album, labeled on the cover “Poison a Farce” theater production. Scenes show individuals in costume for theatrical production, probably at the University of Alabama, where Hobbs was a law student in 1907.
Dates:
1907
Silent Screen collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1272
Overview
Scrapbook pages, mostly loose, containing photo clippings, and newspaper and magazine articles of silent film actors.
Dates:
circa 1920s
Daniel Swist scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2772
Overview
This collection consists of a scrapbook created by Daniel J. Swist, an alumnus of the University of Alabama. The scrapbook covers the years 1937-1943 and contains many annotated photographs of friends and colleagues of Daniel Swist.
Dates:
1937-1943
Taylor Family Evangelical Tent Revival Meetings and Travel Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4203
Overview
Photographs depicting this traveling evangelical family's travels in California, Idaho, Michigan, Wisconsin and other places in the early twentieth century.
Dates:
1914-1915
Tillery Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-024
Abstract
One hundred and seven photographs and two albums with one hundred and three photographs of the Tillery family.
Dates:
1900 - 1909
Trip through the Deep South Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2020-001
Overview
The collection includes one photographic album documenting a trip through the Deep South. The album includes eighty black-and-white silver gelatin photographs from a trip through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas in 1935 and 1936. Of particular interest are approximately twenty images depicting African Americans in the rural South.
Dates:
1935 - 1936
University of Alabama Souvenir Photographic Albums
Collection
Identifier: 2012-028
Abstract
Contains two souvenir photograph albums from University of Alabama showing the campus and buildings, including Garland-Clark-Manly, Morgan, Comer, Smith (interior and exterior), Woods, President's Mansion, and fraternity houses.
Twenty-six photographs (five color, twenty-one black and white) of students and campus buildings throughout the 1910s, 1930s, and 1968, including: Bibb Graves Hall, Morgan Hall, Tutwiler Dorm, Gorgas House, President’s Mansion, Bryce entrance, Union building, Quad and...
Dates:
1910 - 1968
W. C. Olds Photographic Album and Speech
Collection
Identifier: 2022-029
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one photographic album of 494 black-and-white photographs and one 14-page typescript speech from compiler W. C. Olds while traveling through South America during 1906 and 1907. The photographs are of daily life, street and market scenes, and city views of destinations in South America, including Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Ecuador, and Paraguay. The speech is addressed to an unspecified "Board of Trade" and describes Olds meeting locals, bartering at markets, and...
Dates:
1906 - 1907
A. S. Williams III Collection of Photographic Albums
Collection
Identifier: WP-003
Overview
Collection contains sixty-one photographic albums of various subjects collected by A. S. Williams III
Dates:
1840 - 2010
World War II Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4091
Overview
Photograph album containing mainly 2.5" x 2.5" snapshots of an unidentified African American soldier during the 1940s
Dates:
between 1941 and 1950