[Photo Album]: New Jersey Women's Travel Album

PERSELL, Rose

Published by Asbury Park, Avon, Ocean Grove, Red Bank, New Jersey / Brooklyn, New York, 1921

About this Item

Oblong 12mo. Measuring 7.5 x 5.25". Contains 95 gelatin silver black and white or sepia toned photographs measuring between 3" x 2.5" and 6.75" x 4". Lacking the front and rear boards, bound by the spine with small chips and tears on the pages, good with near fine and some very good photographs with light fading and tiny chips. A woman s photo album from 1920 through 1921 from different beach towns in New Jersey including Asbury Park, Avon, Ocean Grove, and Red Bank with a few from Brooklyn, New York. The woman s name, Rose Persell, is captioned under one of her photographs and she can be seen in many of the group photographs, posing, and having fun. Most of the photographs are taken during Persell s time at the beach with friends and family. Some look rather humorous with a man standing on another s shoulders and several photos showing a man attempting to do a handstand and failing. A peculiar note of interest is that many of the girls are wearing bathing suits more synonymous with the previous decade including their regular everyday street clothes with large decorative hats and furs. Persell s family is in a few of the photographs often seen holding newborn babies and one of which shows the family next to Persell s automobile as it is seen in many pictures while she was traveling from beach to beach and to community pools. An interesting collection of leisure photographs of a young girl in the 1920s enjoying her summer with friends.

Seller Inventory # 426125

Bibliographic Details

• Title: [Photo Album]: New Jersey Women's Travel Album
• Publisher: Asbury Park, Avon, Ocean Grove, Red Bank, New Jersey / Brooklyn, New York
• Publication Date: 1921
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography
  • Travel Books