small oblong quarto, containing 62 photographs mounted on 23 black paper leaves, original flexible cloth boards, very good clean condition. Penciled ownership signature on front paste down: "George Hart's Album."
The album contains approximately 10 photographs of Northilla Beach, in King County, Washington, some dated 1911; 2 images of Magnolia Beach, Seattle; Steilacoom: Silver Beach, Salter's Point, and the Smith cottage, camp site at waters edge, about 25; 2 images of Robinson's Point, dated 1910; Manzanita Beach, Oregon, including a very nice real photo postcard of the Water Carnival, 1911: 3; There are a few shots of riders on the trail to Indian Henry's and Mirror Lake, there are several shots of Defiance Park, Tacoma, among others. The album contains a number of group photographs of family members and friends taken while engaged in camping, swimming and other leisure activities, which identify the names of the participants. They are often titled, such as: "The Inner Harbor," "Camping," the "Bread Line," "Canoeing Party," "the Chaperones," "The Old Bridge" (Steilacoom), "Aboard the Battleship Oregon," snow scenes at Wright Park, plus several studio photographs of a young girl named Margaret Hope Pritchard.
A very nice vernacular album which documents Washington and other areas of the Northwest at the turn of the twentieth century