1918 PHOTO ALBUMS: OHIO, NIAGARA FALLS, CALIF, NY: Of the same photographic archive as the Frank LaBlonde the Maid of the Mist Steamship Company.

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Book 1:

5.5”h x 7.75”w: 1911 - Bertha Ward, Pauline Rohrkaste, Nell Smith, Nell & Sophia Hirsch, George and Bess Bodway, in Vermillion, Ohio and along the Vermilion River, in Linwood Park, Tennis Club Field Day 1911. Pennsylvania – Hirsch’s residence in Brookline, Nell & Pauline in masquerade costumes.

Book 2: 7.75”h x 10”w: Pre-1915 with photos of actor John Bunny filming, Sid Spohn playing tennis, Bill Smith, Doc and Pauline Rohrkaste, John & Sophia Hirsch, Irene Smith, Lucille Stephens, Carrie Dyer and Nell Smith. Voskamp’s Farm Harper’s Ferry, proudly driving their car through Sewickley Heights, Boggs Ave (before the war), Schenley Park, Fixing the car on the side of the road, Wyant Farm, Boat rides up the Hudson River, scenes of passengers and boats and military ships, Niagara Falls, New York monuments: New York Capitol and Educational buildings in Albany, lots of family photos labeled, ‘in the backyard’. Pennsylvania: West View, Winter in Mt. Washington. Canoeing and wading in the Vermilion River and docks at its edge. Ohio – Cedar Point.

Book 3. 7.75”h x 10”w: New York- Alexandria Bay and houses along the St Lawrence River, Lachine rapids; Plattsburg: US Army barracks, Ausable Chasm and the Grand Flume at Ausable Chasm, Canada: Quebec, Montreal, Montmorency Falls, St. Ann De Buepre.

Book 4: 7.75”h x 10”w: California - Likely not from the LaBlonde archive, some photographs labeled by and c. 1918: Photos of California – Long Beach and Catalina Island, Inc. Seal Rock, Venice, two autographed photos of actress Pearl White (1889 - 1938, America) and with a rare copy of F. Edgar Davis's, Photographer and Publisher, Savannah, Georgia, entitled “Souvenir Views of Augusta’s Big Fire, March 22, 1916 mounted to the inside of the back cover.