Family Photo Album, c. 1930. Upper Midwest/Canada: Lake Superior/Saskatchewan

Oblong 6.25” x 8.5” album with leather spine and brown cloth boards. 116 black and white photos total, most ranging in size from 3.5” x 2.5” to 6.5” x 4.5”, some trimmed, about half in corner mounts, the others affixed to the pages.

The first 17 pages are comprised of 60 photos, mainly of smiling family members posing at the homestead, on bicycles, in a lake, in era automobiles, and two of a young man or woman playing a banjo in blackface. The following 18 leaves are blank. The remaining 20 pages are comprised of 56 (mostly) captioned photos, including shots of farming, tractors, sledding, and buildings, many with family posed at different spots. Some of the captions read, “S.S. Montclaire,” “near Lake Superior,” “Empress Canada,” “Lake Saskatchewan,” and a page of shots of the Irish and Scottish coastlines. Item #540

Price: $200.00