Album, Photograph

Name/Title

Album, Photograph

Entry/Object ID

2014.001.0001

Description

Photo portrait album on stand. 18 pages, heavy cardboard with woodgrained embossed surface, 3.75" x 4.875" arched windows on both sides for insertion of studio portraits. Overall size of album is 12" x 9", padded and bound in gold velvet (well-worn but intact) with three gilded metal decorations on the front (two floral, one cartouche). The stand is 14'"x 6" x 1" also covered in velvet, with two metal posts, a rod between them threaded through a bracket on the back of the album. The Album opens from the top to display the portraits and is held closed by an elaborate metal hinge.