Hardcover
1910 · Pasadena, Catalina Islands, Summerland, Rubio Falls, Yosemite, Santa Monica, Long Beach, and Port Los Angeles in California
by CUNNINGHAM, Dorothy
Pasadena, Catalina Islands, Summerland, Rubio Falls, Yosemite, Santa Monica, Long Beach, and Port Los Angeles in California, 1910. Hardcover. Near Fine. Oblong quarto measuring 11"x 7.5". Japanese-style binding with half brown cloth covered paper boards and "California 1912," handwritten on the front. Contains 18 gelatin silver black and white or sepia toned photographs measuring 3.5"x 2.5" and 36 postcards measuring 5.5"x 3.5". Lightly bumped spine ends and corners, near fine with fine photographs. A young girl's photo album of places visited with her grandmother around California during the mid to late 1910s. The girl is Dorothy Cunningham and her signature is handwritten on the front pastedown. During her visit, Cunningham collected 36 postcards from the different locations she visited. The cards are from Busch's Sunken Gardens in Pasadena, the San Gabriel Mission Church, Catalina Island, Summerland, Rubio Falls, Yosemite National Park, Santa Monica, Long Beach, and Port Los Angeles with a postcard of, "The longest wharf in the world". There are two larger pieces of ephemera that depict some of the mountain ranges in California, both are in full color with smaller sepia magazine cut outs of the forests and hotels the girl was visiting. Some of the photographs have a double exposure effect and are very well-composed. There are also some random photographs of ostriches and oil wells included in the album. There is one card tipped in the album from Chicago, "Mid pleasure and palaces tho we may roam be it ever so humble there's no place like home". Dorothy Cunningham passed away in 1923, at the age of 32. She had two children and spent the rest of her life living in California. An interesting photo album of a young woman traveling around California with her grandmother circa 1915.
(Inventory #: 423647)