Bidspirit auction | Turn of the Century West

Turn of the Century West Texas Professional Portrait Photography Collection, comprising a Photographic Album and Loose Photographs - A collection of turn of the century West Texas professional portrait photography. This collection features a late 19th to early 20th-century photographic album with a black leather (or faux leather) cover, a brass clasp, and decorative gilded-edge pages featuring embossed and gilded borders. The album contains numerous studio portraits, primarily albumen prints or similar processes, depicting individuals and families in period attire. Alongside the album are approximately ten loose photographs, including several tintypes or ferrotypes, various mounted paper prints (likely cabinet cards or carte de visites), and at least one later black-and-white gelatin silver print depicting a boating scene. Visible cursive text on one mounted print reads ”Jule Heco.”