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(VERNACULAR LOVE STORY)
A scrapbook tenderly documenting the
love story of Virginia and Bob.
A beautifully and carefully presented album made
byVirginia Maslin for her boyfriend (and eventual
husband) Bob while he was serving inWWII.The
poignant album documents their college years and
courtship, ending with Bob’s enrollment in the
Marines in 1943. With numerous photographs,
ephemera,and other illustrations,including shots of
the handsome pair at dances,weekend outings, and
as students, as well as student IDs from their alma
materTemple University,newspaper clippings,notes
they sent,and other keepsakes,along withVirginia’s
commentary and captions. Silver prints, the images
measuring 7
1
/
2
x9
1
/
2
inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), but
most smaller, and the reverse, each page with
captions, in ink, and other mounted ephemera.
Folio,decorative leatherette with a tie binding.1943
[400/600]
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(COLLAGES)
A charming album with nearly 100 altered photographs byWilliam Sigman, who owned
a photography studio in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, incorporating collages and other
visually creative compositions.
The album largely features a 1935 calendar series (“Year After Year!”) of playful collages
incorporating the heads of the local Rotary Club members into tableaux, landscapes, and other
witty compositions. Many with a photographic label indicating a month; also includes collaged
Rotary Club birthday greeting cards, club group portraits, self-portraits, and related imagery.“Bill”
Sigman apparently owned his studio for at least 40 years: with 2 images laid in, one of the
photographer in front of his store, and the other of the photographer as a younger man in front of
what might be his darkroom.The album with a mounted inscription,“I hope you will get as much
pleasure out of these pictures as I did in making them.” Silver prints, the images measuring 7x9
inches (17.8x22.9 cm.), but most smaller, and the reverse, mounted recto/verso. Oblong 4to, brown
flexible boards with a tie binding. 1940
[1,200/1,800]
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