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Oblong quarto. measuring 10.5" x 7. ". Black cloth over flexible boards. Contains 186 black and white gelatin silver or sepia toned photographs measuring between 2" x 1.5" and 6" x 4.5" with some captions. Some edgewear else near fine album with fine photographs. A collection of family photographs from various places in New York and Connecticut beginning in 1917 and continuing through the 1930s. The album is a mix of landscape, fashion, and group photos often well composed and aesthetically pleasing. Most of the photos are posed shots of the family together often accompanied with smiles and silly faces. Even the elderly members look youthful next to their younger relatives. Some of the pictures have been hand cut into circle shapes, around the subject, or in diamonds. Part of the album features cutouts and photos of the Mitchell family. John Hipple Mitchell was born John Mitchell Hipple before abandoning his first home and family, changing his name, and starting a new life or Oregon. The he became Oregon's State Senator off and on from 1873 until his death on December 8th, 1905. He fathered several girls which the proceeding pictures in the book feature the three sisters, Martha, Maggie, and Mattie posing in shots together. There are cutouts which include a couple of magazine pictures and articles about Maggie L. Mitchell and her sister Mattie Elizabeth Mitchell (the Duchess De La Rochefoucauld), and her sister s mother-in-law, the Countess De La Rochefoucauld. In the article she is listed as "Mrs. Frances Hoyt Griffin" after just having married her third husband, Frances Hoyt Griffin. A vast majority of the later photos are of a young woman and man living together in New York with their dog "Beauty." While their names are not written their initials are B.V.H. and G.V.V. Included in these pictures is photos of the couple together or with their friends around their home and traveling to other location in New York and New Jersey. These include Bellport, Pine Bank, Caldmill, Liberty, and Loomis where the couple lived in a small cottage. There are interior shots of their home and exterior shots of different newly built homes in Loomis, New York. Almost every house and structure (a church and a school) have pictures of them in the photo album. The last part of the book shows children growing up with another family in Stanford, Connecticut. There are some more random pictures which include shots of Columbia College, a fair in Chicago, two photos of a young boy dressed in a military uniform, one cyanotype photograph, an illustration of a man holding a woman, and an image of a house with the words, "Puzzle, find the sick lady" written on the verso. An aesthetically pleasing photo album filled with family photographs some of which depict the Mitchell family.
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