[Photo Album]: Turn-of-the-Century California

Oblong small quarto. Measuring 9" x 6½". Textured brown leather over stiff paper boards. Contains 50 sepia-toned albumen photographs measuring between 3½" x 3½" and 4½" x 7½", some with captions. Very good album with some fading on the boards, rubbing, and edgewear; photos mostly fine with a touch of fading to a few. A photo album compiled of various places in Southern California. Many of the photos show tourist attractions and family scenes taken between 1900 and 1902. Throughout the album there are views of churches, beaches, hotels, and local farms; one shows an ostrich farm in Los Angeles. They photographed the 1902 "Rose Tournament" featuring images of the decorated floats, people parading on flower covered bicycles, and hansom cabs. Two photos show the battleship the USS Wyoming including one of the crew returning to the ship on a rowboat. Another page shows workers at an oil rig. They also visited missions in the area including San Jaun Capistrano and San Gabriel. Additionally included are professional souvenir photographs featuring seals on a beach, Catalina Island, Devil’s Gate, a view of the city of San Diego, the Echo Mountain House, and a group of Native Americans in a village with a caption in the negative which reads, "Cheyenne Indian Village." A nice collection of turn-of-the-century photographs of Southern California.…