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The Germany, Austria, France travel photograph album contains approximately 146 photographs documenting a trip to Europe.

The Germany, Austria, France travel photograph album contains approximately 146 photographs documenting a trip to Europe.

The album (27 x 37 cm) is book bound and an inscription on the spine reads "Germany, Austria, France 1888 Daniel." Images begin with scenes in Germany including views of Cologne, castles on the Rhine, Leipzig, and Berlin and the City Palace. Also present are images of the Sanssouci in Potsdam, the cities of Dresden and Carlsbad and Vienna, Austria, as well as photographs of works of art, Munich, and Baden-Baden. The album finishes with a series of images of French scenes including views of Strasbourg, Montecarlo, Monaco, Cannes, and Marseilles.

The Princeton University photograph album consists of approximately 95 cabinet card photographs including portraits of professors and class members of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) class of 1883.

The Princeton University photograph album consists of approximately 95 cabinet card photographs including portraits of professors and class members of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) class of 1883. The album (21 x 30 cm) is fully bound in brown leather. Images include cabinet card portraits of professors and students, views of campus buildings and the Princeton cannon, a class of 1883 group portrait, group portraits of men and women on the lawn and indoors, and class member James Harlan wearing a football uniform. Of particular note is a photograph of James Johnson (d. 1902), and escaped slave and food vendor on campus and in the Princeton community, with a wheeled cart and basket over his arm.

Additional items include genre works, a reproduction of a print of Franz Josef I of Austria with his family, and a photograph of the SS Furnessia, all in cabinet card format. Inside the front cover there is also a montage of engravings of campus buildings as well as a photographic postcard of the Princeton Inn.