Vacation days on the Cedar River photograph album, 1915

Summary

Creator:

Baylis, William

Abstract:

The Vacation days on the Cedar River photograph album contains 11 photographs of a summer cottage and vacation along the Cedar River, Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1915.

Extent:

1 volume

Language:

English

Authors:

Collection processed and finding aid created by Erin Berger, July 2019

Background

Scope and Content:

The Vacation days on the Cedar River photograph album contains 11 photographs of a summer cottage and vacation along the Cedar River in 1915. The inside front cover page includes a typed note naming Miss Christine Peper, likely the owner of the album, and William Baylis, a landscape photographer based in Cedar Rapids. William Baylis' name can be found on the back of each photograph. The images show people canoeing, fishing, sawing, and eating watermelon on the porch of a small cottage. On the inside back cover page, below a photograph of the cottage, is a typed note stating, "This summer-cottage on the Cedar river is for rent by the day, week or month. EVERY SEASON." Two photographs appear to have been torn out.

The album is 18 x 14 cm with black paper covers. The front cover includes a pasted on photograph of a sailboat. "Vacation Days on the Cedar River - Billy's Cottage, 1915, Cedar Rapids, Iowa" is handwritten on the front cover in white

Biographical / Historical:

William Baylis was born in Wheatland, Iowa to William and Margaret Baylis in 1873. He worked as a landscape photographer.

Acquisition Information:

2003. F-649 .

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Related

Additional Descriptive Data:

Bibliography

U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, database, Ancestry.com. Web. Accessed July 2019.

Subjects

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Subjects:

Photographs shelf.
Canoes--Iowa--1910-1920.
Fishing--1910-1920.
Vacations--Iowa--Cedar Rapids--1910-1920.
Vacation houses--Iowa--Cedar Rapids--1910-1920.

Formats:

Photograph albums.
Photographs.

Names:

Peper, Christine.

Places:

Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Cedar River (Minn. and Iowa)