Bidspirit auction | Celluloid & Velvet Photo Album

Celluloid & Velvet Photo Album - Length: 10.5 inches Width: 8.5 inches Depth: 2.5 inches. A Victorian-era photograph album featuring a celluloid-covered front board. The front cover displays a color lithographic portrait of a bearded man in a military uniform with brass buttons, surrounded by a border of repeating American flags and stars. The back cover and spine are bound in a green and brown plush velvet. The album is fitted with an ornate brass-tone metal clasp and four decorative metal corner guards. The interior contains heavy cardstock pages with a printed faux red wood-grain finish and gold-tone borders. These pages feature die-cut apertures for Cabinet cards and Carte de Visite (CDV) photographs. The album includes multiple original period photographs, featuring portraits of infants, children, and young adults in late 19th to early 20th-century attire. The ruler shown in the images indicates a manufacturer mark reading MADE IN U.S.A.