Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oblong quarto. String-tied white paper over thin board with "Photographs" in gilt on front board. Front board warped with some spotting, a few leaves detached or partially detached, very good, images have some modest skinning, some of the early color images are a bit faded, very good. Snapshot album with 148 gelatin silver images. The earliest images are black and white; the vast majority are color snapshots. Images are mostly about 3.5" x 4.25" or a little larger. Most are rudimentarily caption with place, date, and occasionally statistics of a catch ("1967 Deer - Eustis, Maine"). in white album pen. Hunting and fishing album of Keith W. Pampel of Warwick, Rhode Island (b.1921-d.2002). Includes several scrap element: mostly hunting licenses, hunting regulations, a brass cartridge, etc. A few scrap elements stretch into the 1980s, but these seem mostly an afterthought - dates with lists of animals hunted and no photographs. A very subject specific sporting album with young and older men displaying their catches both finned and furred including deer and wild boar, or lounging around hunting camps, and seldom encountered thus.