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Box 11: West Indies aboard the Swedish American Line
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- September 20-October 1, 1941 (Creación)
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"An exquisitely bound album chronicling a cruise on the West Indies aboard the Swedish American Line from September 20 - October 1, 1941. The album was assembled by Charles W. Holton, former mayor Essex Falls, NJ (1930-1951) who was traveling aboard in a party of six. Holton was, among other things, an amateur photographer of considerable skill, and filled the album with 136 silver gelatin photographs taken from the cruise; these are neatly laid on to album leaves and captioned in the Table of Contents. According to the log, the trip was broken up into three segments later departing from New York: Nassau, Bahamas, Cap-Haitien, Haiti, and Havana, Cuba. Each Segment of the trip is represented in photographs in roughly equal thirds, with te subjects varying from landmarks to elegant portraits of native women. The photographs of Haiti are particularly striking, with excellent shots taken of the The Citadel, Church at Sans-Souci, and the Palace of Henri Christophe. The album also includes a 7.5 page travel narrative, trip log, as well as pamphlets and ephemera from the cruise tipped in." - Lorne Bair, Vendor Description.