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The New Jersey and New York City Region photograph album (18.5 x 26 cm) contains 45 photographs of landmarks and city and countryside views of the New York City Region.

New Jersey and New York City Region photograph album (18.5 x 26 cm) contains 45 photographs of landmarks and city and countryside views of the New York City Region. Included are 8 views of the Palisade rock formations near Weehawken, New Jersey, one view including sculptor Karl Bitter's clifftop studio. Other nature views include the Delaware River, South River, Newark Bay, and Mountain Lakes, N.J. City views are mainly of Newark, N.J. streets and buildings, and New York City attractions including Herald Square, the Washington Arch, Trinity Church, Broadway and the Hippodrome. Additional photographs show the boardwalk at Ocean Grove, and pavilion at Asbury Park on the Jersey Shore, an elevated streetcar at Bay Ridge, N.Y., battery at Fort Griswold, Ct., a train on the Lackawanna railroad bridge in East Orange, N.J., and interiors of the Essex County court room and Newark Public Library in Newark, N.J. Photographs include typed captions; paper label inside front album cover: F.H. Tucker, Artistic and Commercial Photographer.

The album has alligator-print cloth covers. Stored in a three-part wrapper with green cloth spine.

The New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Vermont photograph album (18.5 x 26 cm) contains 70 photographics of parks, monuments, bridges, river scenes, lighthouses, waterfalls, and steamboats, in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Vermont.

The New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Vermont photograph album (18.5 x 26 cm) contains 70 photographics of parks, monuments, bridges, river scenes, lighthouses, waterfalls, and steamboats, in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Vermont. Images of ships include photographs of the steamboats Naugatuck, Hendrick Hudson, and Robert Fulton, as well as the prison ship Success. The few city scenes present include two views of the State Capitol in Albany (one with election banners for the 1908 presidential election, the second with election banner for 1912 gubernatorial election), and views from the river of Tarrytown, N.Y., St. Johnsbury, Vt., and the New York City skyline. Also included are multiple views of Ethan Allen Park and Battery Park in Burlington, Vermont. Photographs include typed captions; paper label inside from cover: F.H. Tucker, Artistic and Commercial Photographer.

The album has a black pebbled leather cover which has been partially disbound. Stored in a three-part wrapper with green cloth spine.

The Vacation travel photograph album contains a mixture of approximately 260 commercial and amateur photographs documenting a series of vacations to California, a Lake Michigan cottage, Alaska, and Canada.

The Vacation travel photograph album contains a mixture of approximately 260 commercial and amateur photographs documenting a series of vacations to California, a Lake Michigan cottage, Alaska, and Canada. The album (18 x 30 cm) has black cloth covers with two rivets. California-related photographs include views of beach scenes at Santa Catalina and La Jolla; the Theosophical Society Homestead and Temple on Point Loma; a cutler at work at his donkey-drawn cart; crates of fruit at a railroad station; passengers stretching their legs beside a stationary train; and Mount Lowe Railway and Observatory. Other Western photographs include views of pueblos and adobe buildings in New Mexico Territory.

A series of approximately 70 photographs taken in 1902 show a summer sojourn at Pine Knot Cottage, Macatewa, on Lake Michigan and includes interior and exterior cottage views, beach scenes, sailing a small boat on the lake, and views of the Hotel Ottawa. One whimsical snapshot shows a man standing on his head while being photographed by a man and woman holding a box camera. Images of a traveling party to Alaska include views of the group onboard a steamer and making stops in southeast Alaska; a street view of Wrangell; Tlingit totem poles in Wrangell and Fort Tongass; and commercial photographs of a Greek Church interior and Indian River Park in Sitka.

Additional photographs show Lake Agnes and the Canadian Rockies; Washington Park in Springfield, Illinois; Wall Street, Trinity Church Cemetery, and Grant's Tomb in New York City; Mission San Jose and Mission Concepcion in San Antonio, Texas; and bison and black bears, including a photograph of two men feeding a bear off the back of a wooden cart.