[Photo Album]: Canadian Photography

Title: [Photo Album]: Canadian Photography
Publication: Quebec: 1907

Description: Hardcover. Oblong octavo measuring 9" x 5.5". String-tied gray paper boards with "snapshots landscape" stamped in white on the front board. Contains 94 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs most measuring 3" x 4" with captions. Very good album with some spotting, bowed boards, and edgewear with near fine photographs.

A photo album compiled by a Canadian man in Quebec with an eye for photography. The early images show scenes in a forest captioned "in the woods" and "on the Bridle Path." Other images show landscape views of the area including mountain roads, rolling hills, tree-lined paths, and a nearby cemetery. A running theme throughout the album are various fires that he compiler seemed interested in. He captions them "St. Louis Fire," "Fire Colonial Ave.", "St. Antoine Street Fire," and "McGill Fire" and features photography of the fire department and billowing smoke. It seems he had a fascination with fire and murder scenes, with a caption reading "where man was killed." One section of images shows a military parade on Sherbrooke St. The final pages feature a well-dressed family camping along a lake with photos of picnicking, canoeing, and setting up tents.

An interesting collection of turn-of-the-century photography with an emphasis on landscape and disaster scenes.

Seller ID: 438186

Subject: Ephemera, Photography, Travel Books