Charming Handmade Christmas Letter Album with Family Photos and color Landscape photocards c1910s

  • SIGNED
  • 1910
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1910. A 6" x 4 1/2" handmade album. The covers are constructed of a deeply embossed card with floral border and a photograph of the writer at center. The first page is a printed Christmas greeting , perhaps from a Victorian gift book. Contents includes snippets from and full size color photocards interspersed with manuscript pages and additional pictures; one of the writer, a second of a young relative. The correspondence is from Oswaldtwistl, Lancaster England. The photocards are scenery from the area. The correspondence is newsy with word of family doings. Ribbon tie binding. Cover separated and repaired with new ribbon.

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