Bidspirit auction | 1915-1919 Personal Photograph Album Featuring

1915-1919 Personal Photograph Album Featuring Early School Sports and Travel Snapshots - This vintage personal photograph album dates from the mid-to-late 1910s and contains an assortment of black and white and sepia-toned snapshots and studio portraits. The collection serves as a social history record of early 20th-century student life, athletics, and travel. Notable sports imagery includes a group portrait of a junior basketball championship team wearing jerseys with a circular MC monogram and holding a championship banner from the 1910s, as well as a 1915 football team portrait featuring a ball marked SHS 15 and a nameplate reading TEED. The album includes identified portraits such as Florence Miller at Gunston Hall dated May 1919 and a woman seated in a touring car with the word Hercules written on the side. Travel documentation includes multiple landscape views of Niagara Falls, including the falls and the arched bridge. Architectural views depict collegiate-style buildings, dormitories, and gated entrances. Additional snapshots show leisure activities such as fishing on a rocky lakefront and group gatherings in woodland settings. The album is constructed with a textured black cardstock cover featuring a vertical grain and is string-bound with a black cord. Interior pages are heavy black cardstock with photographs mounted using traditional black paper corner tabs. The album exhibits age-appropriate wear. The covers show light scuffing and edge wear. The interior pages and photographs are generally well-preserved, with some instances of minor silvering or fading consistent with early 20th-century photographic processes. All photographs appear to be securely mounted.