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Southern states, America, 1880s

Scrap album containing sixty-one albumen prints, sizes approx. 3¼ x 3¼ in. to 7½ x 6 in., occasional inscriptions in pencil and one with photographer's ink stamp (indistinct) on verso, loosely inserted in pre-cut slits, titled and several dated in pencil on mounts; with a quantity of miscellaneous photographs loosely inserted, blue cloth (lacking spine, partially disbound), titled Scrap Album in gilt on front cover, oblong 4to.

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A personal album consisting of photographs relating to G.C. Stapylton, portraits and views in America's southern states, probably Alabama and Florida including views of banana groves and orange groves, group portraits of workers, portraits at Stapylton's wedding, an image of an alligator posed on a rocking chair wearing a hat and holding a pipe, views at Spring Lake, Lake Harris and Fate Island, and an image of a lynching titled 'Justice'.

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