Bidspirit auction | Circa 1930s-1943 Antique Rushville, New

Circa 1930s-1943 Antique Rushville, New York Family Scrapbook and Ephemera Archive - A personal archive and scrapbook compiled within a repurposed commercial ledger. The volume is constructed with red cloth-covered boards featuring a rectangular gilt-stamped label on the front cover reading Day Book in script. The spine is reinforced with a wide strip of light-colored, textured cloth tape. The interior contains numerous black-and-white vernacular photographs, greeting cards, and handwritten correspondence primarily associated with the Badger and Moore families of Rushville, New York. Internal ephemera includes a handwritten letter dated June 3, 1943, on blue-printed stationery headed RUSHVILLE LODGE No. 377, F. & A. M. featuring a Masonic Square and Compasses emblem, and a printed Christmas card from Elizabeth and Ernest Badger. The photographic content includes wedding portraits, a series of images documenting horse-drawn carriages and early automobiles, group portraits of women in period swimwear and sun hats, and childhood snapshots, including one labeled Billy and Paul. Several photographs are accompanied by handwritten captions, such as one identifying Bob Moore at Death Rock and another noting types of transportation. The ledger pages, numbered up to at least 235, show original blue and red ruled accounting columns and occasional handwritten financial entries. A printed product label for Bartlett Pairs is also pasted to an interior page. The archive is in well-used, as-found condition. The exterior binding shows heavy scuffing and loss to the red cloth, particularly at the corners and edges (photo 1). The makeshift cloth spine repair is frayed and shows dark staining (photo 2). The interior exhibits significant scrapbook flare, causing the text block to distend and the covers to sit unevenly (photo 13). Pages show toning, foxing, and numerous edge tears and creases (photo 3). Many photographs and cards are adhered to the pages with visible adhesive residue, and some inserts are loose or protruding from the text block edges. Fading and silvering are visible on several black-and-white photographs (photo 7). The overall structural integrity of the binding is fragile.