Photography Antiques from the web

Photography
Featuring an antique photo album filled with old family photos.
The album has pages in full color depicting scenes from the Columbian Exposition.

The World's Columbian Exposition, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's landing in America, was a spectacular event. It took three frantic years of preparation and work to produce the exposition.

Although dedication ceremonies were held on October 21, 1892, the fairgrounds were not opened to the public until May 1, 1893. It was the last and the greatest of the 19th century's World's Fairs.

It was a reflection and celebration of American culture and society and a blueprint for life in modern and postmodern America.

The fair was immensely popular, drawing over 27 million visitors. It was widely publicized both nationally and internationally, and people traveled from all over the world to see the spectacle.

Many souvenir items were made specifically to promote the fair. This amazing photo album was one such piece. It has wonderful lithographs depicting the various buildings that made up the exposition, along with excellent

examples of early photographs. The album is full, containing twenty-eight cabinet cards, three tintypes and five cartes de visite. The photographs are portraits, three are family group photos and the tintypes are of children. This album may have been purchased at the exposition by one family member who brought it back and stored the family photos in it.

Click to purchase

There is some foxing on the pages and the back cover is starting to separate but the binding is still intact. The pictures of the very impressive exposiion buildings are still bright and beautiful and most of the photographs are in very good condition as they have been stored in this album for so many years. It is a lovely example of an antique photo album with roots in American history and culture.

Many of the Cabinet Cards are marked with photographers names and address from Albany, Rome, Pulaski and Sandy Creek N.Y. The album is well worn, the velvet has completely worn off the front, remains can be seen around the metal decoration on front and the back shows some indication that it had a soft grey color velvet covering.

We are working hard to bring MORE products online.
We hope you will browse and search the store, and continue to visit us often as we continue to add content to our pages and items to our store.

Please contact us if you would like more information.

Susan@antiquesfromtheweb.com or Tim@antiquesfromtheweb.com

We are happy to except
Paypal, personal checks, money orders

Also visit our eBay listings Click Here