[Rarebooks] FS: Maine & Washington, DC photo album

[Bob Petrilla]

Maine & Washington, DC. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM ASSEMBLED BY ROSEZETTE AGNEL
FOSTER OF CARMEL, MAINE, 1913-1926. Contains some 109 vernacular
photographs mounted to 65 leaves of heavy black stock, labeled in white
ink. The images of various sizes are mainly 4.25" x 3.25", averaging three
or four to a page, with one page of 15 thumb portraits. Housed in an album
of wove cloth over flexible boards, "Photographs" embossed on cover. 8.25"
x 10.25"  Very Good condition.

Nearly all of the photographs feature members of several families in
various Maine locales. Besides Carmel, home of the album's compiler, are
photos from Ashland, Fort Kent, Yarmouth, Fairfield, Waterville, and East
Dover. Several others are from North Attleboro, Massachusetts, along with
an interesting group from Washington, DC, described below. ~~ The families
mentioned most frequently are the Fosters (Herold, A.E., L.C., M.K.,
Fremont, and Amber Z.); the Andrews family (Mildred, Myrtle, children Greta
and Chester, Helen, Lila and Lucian and daughter Natalie, Pauline and
W.C.); and the Orcutts (Vernon, his daughter Marjorie, Viola, Laura and
Edson). Also seen are several Hunts (Roland, Mary Ada) and Rangers (or
Raynors): Ralph, Doris Orcutt Rayner and son Herbert); the Deon family
(Lizzie and daughters); Batchelders; and Smiths (Bessie, Bernice, Herbert).
Among the interesting family photos are: two Red Cross nurses; Vernon
Orcutt (one in his Army uniform and helmet; and one in a baseball uniform
and ball cap; family reunions with the women in floor-length skirts;
children on horseback; early automobiles; family homesteads; an early radio
and operator;  ~~ The earliest photographs in this album are two taken in
Washington, DC in 1913 (the White House and someone’s home in Georgetown).
Next, are two candid photos of the Grand Army of the Republic Parade on
Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, Sept. 29, 1915, photographed by M.L.
Andrews. Finally, we find seven (7) photos taken on September 17, 1919,
including “The 1st Division Parade” taken by A.E. Foster “on his way home
from War”; the 1st Division on the steps of the U.S. Capitol; “The 1st
Division of General Pershing eating watermelons after parade”; U.S. Marine
Band; and “[the] wounded of 1st Div. from Walter Reed Hospital” on
parade.   $200.00

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