Untitled
1923-51
A personal travel scrapbook page of gelatin silver photographs mounted on black paper, where the maker arranges small snapshots—labelled “Lake Louise” and “Bears”—to preserve and present moments from a trip.
The first thing you notice is the bright, scalloped white edges of three small black‑and‑white prints set against a matte black page and tied together by a slanted handwritten “Lake Louise,” showing a forested mountain lake, a rooftop pool overlooking the shore, and a distant pair of bears near a parked car.
A vernacular object that shows how accessible silver‑gelatin photography and homemade albums let ordinary people frame, sequence, and share personal travel experiences, helping to shape modern memory and visual culture in the early 20th century.
Medium
Album of 74 gelatin silver prints
Dimensions
8 3/4 × 7 1/2" (22.2 × 19.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Peter J. Cohen
Accession
887.2010.15
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