[Photo Album]: Images Documenting the Women of an Oregon family and their Excursions throughout the American West, 1909-11

(Oregon, 1909. Softcover. Very Good. Oblong quarto (12½" x 10"). Black leatherette album. Contains approximately 280 gelatin silver prints dating from 1909-11, most measuring between 2½" x 4" and 4" x 5", corner mounted on both sides of thick black paper leaves. Most are captioned in white ink on the paper leaves. Also included are an additional 60 mostly uncaptioned photographs dating from the 1910s up through the 1930s, mounted on the leaves at the back of the album. A few photographs are partly detached or detached from the corner mounts and laid-in; with additional loose photographs and a few real photo post cards also laid in. A few prints are lightly rubbed or faded at the edges, very good.

A remarkable album of images compiled by a woman from Brownville, Oregon. Notable are the many photographs of women, family members and friends, pictured at private homes and farms, out and about on various excursions, hiking or traveling in horse drawn carriages or the occasional early motor car. Included are several photos taken throughout Oregon (including Brownville, Hye Beach, Albany, Corvallis, Portland, and Ontario); Idaho (mostly along Hornet Creek, including an "Indian Woman" at Pocatello); Yellowstone National Park, California (Pasadena, Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco Bay, Monterey Bay); and the compiler's original home in Kansas (Reserve, Everest, Lost Springs, Padonia). Also included are images from Montana (including the mining camp at Hassell), Seattle, Victoria, B.C., Colorado, and Maine. Other photographs feature snapshots of male and female members, including "Uncle Julius" and others in a motor car (1909), and "Uncle Max's Threshing Machine."

Among the smaller second section of later photographs are snapshots of family members out and about their home and a farm, with several images of farm animals, a group of men in uniform (WWI?), motor cars, and an early view of a Wilshire Gasoline station [California?]. Laid in are three manuscript sheets, chronicling the "Gall" family genealogy, and two clippings. There is also one loose autograph post card, posted from Idaho Falls to Padonia, Kansas (1912).

A handsomely compiled album, documenting an Oregon woman's life and travels during the early years of the twentieth century.