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Photos pasted onto cloth photo album, containing 58 photos taken of missionaries Ruth and Dwight Brown to Filadelfia, Paraguay in 1973.

"A very rare set of a dozen lithograph views of Martinique after eleven photographs by Hippolyte Hartmann and one drawing by Michel-Jean Cazabon, set on stone by Eugène Cicéri in Paris circa 1860. The Alsatian Hartmann and his son worked as photographers in the Caribbean and on the Atlantic coast of South America, 'As was necessary, since in the mid-nineteenth century the residents of any one island could not support a full time photographer' - Getty. They seem to have travelled often with Cazabon, a Creole artist regarded as the first great Trinidadian painter, with whom they also published a second lithograph view book depicting Demerara." -- Librería de Antaño

"A photo album and scrapbook compiled by Kenneth Price in 1974, documenting a National Geographic aerial survey of the coast of South American taken in 1930. The album, entitled Flight of the Argentina, contains long narrative captions by Price along with his original photographs and clippings. According to Price's introduction, '[this is] a photo and memo album of a National Geographic aerial survey of the East Coast of South America (Nat Geo Dec. 1930, Jan. 1931). This was inspired after reading 'A Dream of Eagles' by Col. Ralph A. O'Neill...and a collection of my own pictures (many have been lost). It is made up of clippings and pictures from two magazine articles; and my own pictures (taken with a Brownie 2-A) plus memos, letters, and clippings.' He continues 'After two months building aircraft radio equipment for NYRBA (New York Rio & Bueno Aires), I was selected as radio operator for the 26 passenger seaplane Argentine and took off from North Beach, Long Island, New York, May 21st 1930.' Price then lists the other crew for the expedition which included, among others, Frederick Simpich, an American writer, newspaperman, and Assistant Editor of the National Geographic Society from 1931 to 1949. During his time in the society, he wrote more articles for the magazine than anyone else before or after this time.

The survey began in New York and went to Miami, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Kitts, Trinidad, British Guiana, Dutch Guiana, French Guiana, Brazil, and Uruguay. Each stop features Price's memories of the time, clippings from contemporary newspapers and the National Geographic articles, and photographs. Price underlines parts of the articles he feels caption the images and explain each leg of the journey. On a page from a stop in St. Thomas an article read, 'viewed from the sky, these islands are strangely beautiful. Only God's own hands could form these gracefully molded emerald hills and set them in turquoise seas with foamy waves as a white fringe about dark-green shores.' Another later article reads, 'from the air, you see how close primeval forests crowd Para. Its streets end in the jungle. We stopped here five days to overhaul our plane, and when we got ashore, we saw more clearly how utterly the vast forests of Brazil dominate the life of the greatest city on the Amazon.'

Price ends this portion of the album writing, 'our 4 month geographic survey is over. I will return with plane 'Argentina' to Rio. This will be my base for air and passengers runs to Bahia 1100 miles to the north of Rio. Stops at Campos, Vitoria, Ilheus, and Salvador.' Once the National Geographic crew had gone back to the United States, Price 'remained with the Argentina,' now assigned to mail and passenger runs in Brazil until P.A.A. (Pan American Airlines) and a revolution upset everything and I returned to N.Y.C. by boat from Rio.' The final few pages document Price's work during this time and include a memo from Pan American retaining his services. A page featuring photographs of Brazilian crowds reads, 'our last trip from Bahia arriving in Rio we got the news that Bahia was being sacked the day after we left. A Brazilian revolution had begun. Crowds gathered in the streets of Rio and bedlam soon took over.' He continues, 'not being able to speak Portuguese I could not get the details. We could roam the streets but at times it was dangerous when the shooting started.' The album ends with two typed letters signed by author Ralph A. O'Neill, whose book inspired the making of the scrapbook.

A n extensive album documenting a first-hand account of a National Geographic aerial survey of the Caribbean and east coast of South America." --description form Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

"A very extensive collection of over 800 silver gelatin photographs of Panama from 1943 to 1945, likely compiled by the wife of an American military officer stationed there during World War II. The album contains views of Panamanian cities and environs, including Panama City and Colón. Photographs of Panama City show street scenes (Avenida Central, a lottery event, buildings with signs reading 'Tropical Radio Telegraph Co.,' 'Cecilia,' 'Club Nocturno,' etc.), Plaza Cinco de Mayo, the former Central Railway station, the University of Panama, the National Lottery Building, the Palacio de las Garzas (presidential residence), the National Theatre of Panama, Santa Ana Church, San Francisco Church, Paseo de las Bovedas, the flat arch of the Santo Domingo Convent, and the ruins of Panama Viejo. Of Colón, they show Mount Hope Cemetery, Hotel Washington, the Municipal Park, and street views. Thirty four photographs show Carnival in Panama City in February 1944, and 28 photographs show the 'Sacred Heart Procession' near the San Francisco Church in July 1944. There are also photos of Chitre (exterior and interior of St. John Baptist Cathedral, a plaza, a cemetery, 'Hotel International,' and a public market), Portobelo ('Modern Portobelo,' the local ruins, a cemetery, and Church of San Felipe), U.S. military housing in Diablo, Santa Clara (the beach, cabins, and huts), Gamboa ('Gold school,' a country club, U.S. military housing, views of Chagres River), Parque Municipal Summit in Central Panama, and Barro Colorado Island (biological research island in the middle of the Panama Canal).

Over 40 photographs show the Guna, an indigenous people of Panama, in a village likely in the San Blas Islands (northeast coast of Panama). The photographs include street scenes of the village, Guna women and children with the compiler and her friends, men swimming, dugout canoes, and a signpost reading 'sociedad eclesistica [church membership].' Other photographs are of the compiler and her friends and family in Panama and Utah. The piece of ephemera is a print caption previously attached to a loosely inserted group portrait of the attendees of a party, titled 'M.I.A Party, Canal Zone Branch, Nov. 7, 1944.' The caption identifies all people in the photograph as well as the photographer.

Overall, an extensive and lively album showing Panama during the latter half of World War II." --description from Wayfarer's Bookshop.

"Historically interesting, extensive collection of early original photographs of the Panama Canal, Caracas and Port of Spain in Trinidad. Most likely compiled by an American traveler in the 1900s. The album starts with several views of Panama City, showing the Metropolitan Cathedral, La Merced Church, Tivoli Hotel, railway station, city streets and residential areas. Four excellent large panoramas and about eighteen smaller snapshot photos depict the earth- and construction-works on the Panama Canal. Among the identified images of Port of Spain (Trinidad & Tobago) are large views of the Government House and a wharf, and a series of smaller photos, showing the business district, a corner of Frederick Street with Maillard's 'El Popular' store and Belmont street car, the city harbour, a man dressed up for Carnival, etc. The album also contains large, well-executed views of Caracas, Venezuela: A panorama with the Miraflores Palace, the old campus of the University, Plaza Bolivar with Simon Bolivar's equestrian statue, and a portrait of a group of local men and kids with the Miraflores Palace in the far right. The other photos show a port with the hangar with the sign 'Panama Railroad Co.'s Pier No. 4,' railway stations and trains, horse-driven tram cars, a public gathering near a shore office of a cable car line, residential and administrative buildings (most likely in the Panama Canal Zone), city streets, harbors, churches and cathedrals, scenes with travelers dining, conversing with other Europeans or Americans, etc." --description from the The Wayfarer's Bookshop

A photo album featuring "photos aeriennes" by Boisel, Charles. Oblong album with string tie and a title card. Twenty-five photographs have printed captions on the photo, and the album also contains 42 original photographic postcards. Nearly all of the large photos are aerial views, although there are some street level views and harbor level views.

"A delightful and well-produced souvenir photograph album of a 1913 vacation cruise through the Caribbean, compiled by Mr. and Mrs. John Joseph Donovan, and presented to their daughter Geraldine Goodheart Donovan on the title leaf. In an interesting form of quasi-publication, the introduction and an explanatory text are printed and mounted opposite original photographs. In a printed note titled 'Our Trip' mounted to the verso of the title page, the Donovans explain that 'these notes and pictures of our trip to Panama, the West Indies and Caracas are prepared as a souvenir for a few personal friends and relatives.' The photographs are arranged according to each location they visited, with each section beginning with a short printed commentary by them. The Donovans sailed upon the VICTORIA LUISE, a 'floating hotel' from which they observed the South Atlantic and Caribbean. Captions mounted with the photos chart the journey from the moment they leave New York on March 11, 1913 to just before they head home on the train. In between, the album is filled with wonderful images of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Panama, Venezuela, Trinidad, Barbados, Martinique, and St. Thomas. Highlights of the photographs include Morro Castle and several street scenes in Havana; Caguas Church in San Juan; Nelson Monument in Kingston; a handful of shots showing completion work on the Panama Canal, namely Gatun Lake and the Culebra Cut; a view of Caracas from Columbus Monument; a shot of ten children in Trinidad labeled 'Pickaninnies;' a sugar cane field in Barbados; a market scene in Fort-de-France, Martinique; and Bluebeard's Tower in St. Thomas. In addition to the photographs of the various locales, there are also several photographs showing on-deck activities including tug-of-war, a pillow fight, 'Girls' Nail-Driving,' and more. An attractive photographic record of a wonderful trip from New York, through the Caribbean, and back again, produced at no small expense to the travelers, evidenced by the arrangement of the photographs and the printed personalized commentary that opens each section." --- From William Reese Company

"A nicely captioned album assembled by an American family, documenting their 1906 and 1907 tour of the West Indies and Bermuda aboard the S.S. Prinzessin Victoria Louisa and the S.S. Bermudian. The first 31 images depict the West Indies, with a series of well composed images focusing on Afro-Caribbean and local youths and laborers, a parade of workers loading coal at St. Thomas, street views in St. Thomas, the St. Thomas Market, street youths in Puerto Rico, and pearl divers at Nassau. There are also interesting images of the lives of the wealthy white passengers on the ship, including images of lavish tea services. The rest of the album focuses on Hamilton and St. George's in Bermuda, including many photos of local landmarks and nature sights. Also provides photos of the Governor's residence, the Coral Cliffs and Devil's Hole." --description from Buckingham Books, bookseller

Photograph album from Puerto Rico with pictures featuring Puerto Rican events, people, and landmarks labeled in white.

"Oblong quarto measuring 13' x 10'. Screw bound black leather boards with gilt decorations. Contains 106 gelatin silver black and white or sepia toned photographs measuring between 1.5' x 1' and 9' x 6.5' without captions.

An aesthetically pleasing photo album of a couple's vacation to Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, circa the 1930s. The album starts with a hand drawn illustration of a woman. From there, the photographs are of various places around San Fernando, Trinidad, and Tobago. Most of the photographs include a smaller gelatin silver photograph sized 1.5' x 1' and a larger blown up and printed version of the photograph. The Nariva ferry is one of the first pictures seen before several photographs of baby pictures. The album then focuses on the flora and working class of the island. Pictures of flowers, forest trails, and rivers can be seen stretching for miles, all of which are well shot. Some cities are also photographed, possibly from overhead as many twinkling lights can be seen in the photograph. There are several pictures of the working class on the island with shots of them getting water or working in a hay mill. There are several candid shots of people, one of a man praying, some of young girls smiling, and an interesting photograph of a little boy with a boa constrictor wrapped around his neck and body.

The couple also takes pictures of each other with shots of them wakeboarding and enjoying the beach, one of which shows the woman in front of the setting sun creating a silhouette of her shape in an aesthetically pleasing photograph. Another shows the couple visiting an airfield with well shot photographs of the planes. There is a portrait shot of the wife that was printed and negatives of the husband holding the couple's dogs, which are pictured again in a larger photograph. Towards the end there are several photos of damage left from the Trinidad hurricane with roofs peeled off of buildings and just the frames of houses left up with the wife looking dismayed around the rubble.

There are some random photographs that looks like they may have been used in magazine advertising as one shows a turkey with loves of bread for Thanksgiving and another shows small clay penguins posed next to a box of 'Kool Cigarettes.'" --Description from Between the Covers Rare Books

"A collection of studio and amateur photographs of the Scotland Bay Recreation Area, part of Naval Base Trinidad, and the nearby city of Port of Spain, compiled by LTJG Alex Wolf while he was stationed there from 1944 to Jun 1945. Wolf was a physical education teacher who lived in Chicago. After his promotion from ensign to lieutenant (junior grade), Wolf was the officer in charge (O-in-C) of Scotland Bay Recreation Area and had been for eighteen months when he left. Naval Base Trinidad, commissioned in 1941, was a U.S. Naval base constructed to support ships in the Atlantic theatre of WWII and defend shipping lanes to and from the Panama Canal from German U-boats. It was decommissioned in 1977.

Sixty photographs are of Scotland Bay Recreation Area, including the volleyball/badminton, basketball, tennis, and handball courts, the softball and baseball fields, and the swimming area with its cabanas, diving tower, and pier. There are also views of the Frank Knox Zoo, part of the recreation area, with snapshots of officers with snakes and a macaw. Other photographs include the picnic area, beer garden and canteen, boat dock, administrative building, Chief Petty Officers Clubhouse, and scenes at the Rainbow Canteen. Several photos show the crew members of USS Brooklyn and USS Guam during their shore leave participating in sports and picnics. Four photos are of Eleanor Roosevelt's tour of Scotland Bay Recreation Area while she was visiting Naval Base Trinidad in 1944. The newspaper clippings are likely from papers circulated locally or within the U.S. forces, with stories or photos of the recreation area. Several clippings mention or feature Wolf.

The latter half of the album contains views and snapshots from the city of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. They include Maracas Falls, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Queen's Park Hotel (demolished in 1996), Jama Masjid POS, Memorial Park, street markets, a school, a 'typical native hut,' and photographs of the locals. Ephemera includes three envelopes...addressed to Wolf; two records of extension of certificate for 'E.P.G. + Inter + Upper;' two Assignment to Teacher forms from 1936 and 1939, issued by the Chicago Board of Education; two Notice of Teacher Transfer forms from 1960 and 1962, issued by Chicago Public Schools; a card noting that Wolf 'successfully passed the Teachers of Elementary Schools Academic Examination' dated 1932; a report of exam marks for Teachers in High Schools certificates; a letter addressed to Coaching School students at the University of Illinois from the Delta Theta Epsilon fraternity; and two report cards from the first and second semesters of 1933-34 from the University of Illinois." --Description from The Wayfarer's Bookshop

"Original 4to album (36ff). leather and boards, with 212 photographs of various sizes but mostly snapshots; each photo with a brief caption (in white ink) on the black album pages. Album assembled by a young Dutch sailor serving time on the island, taking photographs of the numerous places visited (countryside, coasts, towns), of maneuvers, military exercises, including street parades and ceremonies, and typical photos of clowning with other Dutch...sailors..." -- description from March Selvaggio, bookseller

"[26] black paper leaves with 33 captioned (in yellow) and mounted silver gelatin photographs (18cm x13cm each); [16] leaves (smaller white paper measuring27cm x 20cm – not oblong), with 29 mounted silver gelatin photographs and original photograph post cards, as well as numerous magazine cutouts; [13] leaves (on the same white paper), with 21 mounted silver gelatin photographs (sizes vary) and original photograph postcards. Contemporary block-stamped cloth binding, the word “FOTOGRAFIAS” as well as a pastoral scene with a setting sun depicted in relief on the upper board, in muted tones of red, blue and yellow, spine and lower board expertly renewed with period materials to match. This is a fascinating album during an important period of Argentine history. Comprised of three parts, the first section was made by Al Lundin, an agricultural developer who worked for the Argentine North Eastern Railway, a British Company that had interests in Argentina. The company was founded in 1887 and continued until 1948 when it became nationalized under president Juan Perón." --description from Ben Kinmont, Bookseller

"Photograph album compiled by a young officer identified as Private L. Kingsley while serving with the 14th West Yorkshire Regiment in the Defence of Jamaica. Oblong quatro album, tri-colour string-tied board, contains 215 black and white photographs, three (3) newspaper clippings, and two (2) ephemeral documents printed by the army. Photographs vary in size, the smallest is 4x6.5 cm and the largest 10.5x10.5 cm." -- description from Libreria de Antaño

An album that belonged to a woman with the initials "M.A.F," featuring photographs of Cuba and Florida from the 1920s.

"Historically significant extensive collection of early original photos, dedicated to oil drilling in Colombia, Texas, and Louisiana in the 1920s. The album documents the activities of a noted Texan oilman James Smither Abercrombie and was apparently compiled by his business partner, or a family member, possibly his younger brother Robert Haden Abercrombie. James Abercrombie started working in the Texan oil industry in 1909 and by 1918, had enough money to drill for oil in South Texas and the Gulf Coast on his own. The images show workers unloading drilling machinery at Puerto Escondido, ferrying it across the Sinu River to Monteria, Abercrombie and his partners in the camps at Tubara and Lorencita, drilling rigs under construction, oil holding tanks, the Sinu River, a 'mud volcano' in Lorencita, and many images of local villages and their inhabitants, etc. A smaller group of photos at the rear illustrate Abercrombies later drilling operations at Lake Pelto and Lake Barre (Louisiana), and Dog Lake and Taylor Bayou (Texas), showing piled up pipes, equipment, drills, construction workers, etc." --description from the The Wayfarer's Bookshop

Informational pamphlet by the Westside Future Fund in Atlanta, Georgia. The contents are a snapshot summary of progress since the adoption of the Westside Land Use Action Plan in 2017. The map was prepared by Thadani Architects + Urbanists for the Westside Future Fund with photographs courtesy of WFF, Aretta L. Baldon, and Charles Forde.

Folder contains maps, tracings, site plans of metropolitan Port-au-Prince area.