Swann Galleries - Photographs & Photobooks - Sale 2426, October 25, 2016

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(AMATEUR ALBUM)

An album with 418 elegant photographs taken by L. Dresel of her trip to the United States.

A largely chronological documentation of Dresel’s visit to the States, starting with her landing in

NewYork City, and traveling towards Boston, including coastal towns in Massachusetts, and further

north. Most photographs appear to be taken by Dresel herself, but also includes images of the

photographer, as well as enchanting harbor scenes, refined winter landscapes, Boston street scenes,

portraits of family and friends, and rural meditations, all creating a portrait of the New England

picturesque.With rich platinum prints interspersed throughout. Silver and platinum prints on a

variety of paper stocks, the images measuring 2

x4 to 4

inches (6.4x10.2 to 12.1x16.5 cm.),

and the reverse, nearly all cornered in, but some tipped at the left edge, the pages with the locations

and dates, and the images with captions, in ink. Folio, cloth with the printed title, lightly worn; with

the photographer’s signature and dates, in ink, on the front free endpaper. 1903-05

[800/1,200]

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(VERNACULAR FAMILY)

An album with 95 photographs chronicling

the grand adventures of a well-to-do East

Coast family.

With multiple family portraits in their lavish

home, street views of NewYork City, and various

scenes in the countryside and suburbs; 2 of the

images have playfully photo-collaged elements of

a woman’s head, one onto piano sheet music, the

other onto a family portrait. Silver (39) and

printing-out paper (56) prints, the images

measuring 4x5 inches (10.2x12.7 cm.), and the

reverse, mounted recto/verso into the album

windows. 4to, maroon cloth and leather with gilt

lettering; backstrip perished. 1890s

[400/600]

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