[Rarebooks] MAINE WOODS PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM 1912

[Garry R Austin]

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PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM; OUR VISIT TO "BETULA" LODGE; CAMP OF GENERAL HENRY  
A. BISHOP, CARR POND, PORTAGE MAINE, NOVEMBER, 1912. (New York)  
Privately printed, 1912. Oblong octavo, full brown pebbled leather,  
lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers and gilt decorated dentelles.  
Twenty-nine leaves. Illustrated with fifty-four (54) black and white  
photographs, each measuring 6.5" x 5". Also three original poems  
credited to "Hen the Poet" and "Ide and Gerald - Poets". The  
photographs depict the camp life of this lovely get-a-way place. There  
are views of the camp buildings and surrounding scenery. The train  
station in Portage Maine and teams of horses. More than a dozen post  
deer hunting pictures, they were very successful and many pictures,  
some humorous of the visitors. An interesting album of a predominantly  
fall and winter visit to the camp. Visitors are listed as; General  
Henry A. Bishop, Mrs. Henry A. Bishop, Henry A. Bishop, Jr., Mr. &  
Mrs. Waldo C. Bryant, Miss Sybil Nash, Roderick McNeil  & Captain W.  
S. Green. Henry Bishop was a prominent Railroad man, see details  
below. Very good. Lower front joint just started. Album is sound.  
Photographs are very good. $1000.00 postpaid, trade discounts apply.

Henry Alfred Bishop (1860-1934) was superintendent and vice-president  
of several Eastern railroads, as well as other corporations. He served  
in the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1886.
Bishop was born to William D. and Julia Ann Bishop (née Tomlinson) in  
Bridgeport, Connecticut. Although he attended Yale University along  
with the class of 1884, he never graduated and instead went to work as  
a general ticket agent for the Naugatuck Railroad. He married Jessie  
Alvord Trubee in Bridgeport on 1883-02-06. He was promoted at the  
Naugatuck railroad, serving as assistant superintendent from 1885 to  
1886. From 1887 to 1902 he was superintendent of the Housatonic  
Railroad (later, general superintendent of that railroad as well as  
its branches), becoming purchasing agent for the New York, New Haven  
and Hartford Railroad. In 1902, he became vice-president of the West  
Virginia Central and Western Maryland Railroads; he resigned this post  
in 1903.
In 1915, he was the vice-president or director of several companies,  
including Pacific Iron Works, Western Union, American District  
Telegraph Company of New Jersey and Connecticut National Bank.
His grandfather Alfred Bishop et al founded and built the railroad  
from New York to New Haven and to Hartford - New York, New Haven and  
Hartford Railroad. His father William Bishop was president of this  
railroad.
Bishop was the Democratic candidate for Connecticut Secretary of State  
in 1888, after having served in the House of Representatives in 1886;  
he did serve as the president of the Board of Police Commissioners  
from 1888 to 1890. He also ran for Lieutenant Governor in 1904.
Bishop was a member of the Episcopal Church, as well as holding  
membership or leadership positions in several fraternal or service  
organizations, such as the Sons of the American Revolution, the  
Society of Colonial Wars, the Bridgeport Scientific and Historical  
Society, the Freemasons (32°) and the Knights Templar.
He was a trustee of the Bridgeport Orphan Asylum as well as director  
of Bridgeport Hospital.

The Bryant Electric Company was a manufacturer of wiring devices,  
electrical components, and switches founded by Waldo C. Bryant in 1888  
in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. The company was purchased by  
Westinghouse Electric in 1901 and continued operation as the Bryant  
Electric subsidiary of Westinghouse. By 1928, Bryant sold over 4,000  
different products and eventually became the world's largest plant  
devoted to the manufacture of wiring devices.

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