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10" x 8" homemade paperbound photo-book of twenty 3" x 5" snapshot photographs, captured en route to the National Electric Light Association Convention of 1912. "A Memory of 1912" handwritten in black ink on the cover. The cover also indicates the date of composition as January 1, 1913 by the hand of Ward Harrison. Title page indicates the trip as "Through the Rockies on the Pink Special En Route For the N.E.L.A. Convention - Seattle, Washington - June 1912" All photos are annotated and include: East from the Three Sisters, through the Bow River Valley, Wind Mountain from the train, Buffalo Herd (in) Canadian National Park, Lake Louise, Bow River from Banff Hotel, Little Beehive, on the trail to Mirror Lake, Summit of Mt. Victoria, party of Government Rangers at Lake Agnes, Mt. Stephen and the Valley of the Ricking Horse, Great Glacier, through the Selkirks, Illecillewaet Valley from the Great Glacier, through the gorge on the Fraser River, etc. Ward Harrison, member of N.E.L.A. and creator of… Read More

Written on the first page of this album is "Miss Elizabeth R. Hotchkiss, her book - 1900. (She became Mrs. Ed R. Johnson in 1901). Photos most all by Ed R. Johnson, also prints." Bess (short for Elizabeth) is pictured on the first page beside a view of the railroad tracks through the Berkshire Hills (Massachusetts) in the year 1900. Many photos telltale the life and works around Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - where the couple moved around 1905. Earlier photos depict life on Sodus Bay, Lake Ontario, where each partner's families had summer homes - is that where these young lovers met? A number of stunning pictures capture the period's climate and infrastructure. There is a cyanotype which captures an impressive iceberg in Lake Michigan, about twelve feet above the water's surface off the shore of Milwaukee, WI. Preserved herein are photos of: Syracuse's once-thriving salt industry, the Illinois Steel Company in Wisconsin (1905), a horse and carriage along the Massachusetts state highway… Read More