[Photo Album]: Girl's Family Album

Sweden, 1940. Softcover. Near Fine. Oblong quarto measuring 12" x 9". String-tied brown paper with blind stamped illustrations on the cover. Contains 40 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 1.5" x 1.75" and 4" x 6" without captions. Album is very good with creasing, chips, and rubbing with very good photographs with some tears.

A photo album kept by a woman in Sweden between 1930 and the mid 1940s. The album depicts the young woman and her family and friends in a variety of poses and locations. Many of the photos show women engaged in recreation in fields, having picnics, and posing in family gardens. The women are in fashionable clothes and hats smiling and demurely posing when they weren't frolicking and laying about in pastures. One section depicts the girls at a garden party in white dresses. A photo in this series shows a girl playing an accordion for her friends. Another group of photos show the women posing for portraits in costumes which include powdered wigs and 18th Century period style dress with the girls playing the male and female roles. Two photos show men in a Swedish military uniforms posed for portraits. One photo shows a woman writing at a desk in a store with a window in the background which reads, "aktiebolag," which is Swedish for corporation. A modest but interesting collection of images of a young woman and her friends and family in Sweden in the 1930s and 40s.