Bidspirit auction | Roycroft Leather Chicago Family and

Roycroft Leather Chicago Family and Travel Photograph Album - This Roycroft leather album is a string-bound photograph collection featuring an embossed brown leather cover in the Arts and Crafts style. The front cover displays a central rectangular panel with stylized Art Nouveau floral and scrollwork motifs. The album contains an assortment of silver gelatin photographs, including sepia-toned and black-and-white prints, mounted with paper corners onto dark paper pages. A series of professional studio portraits are present, several of which bear the embossed mark Drevilas, 220 N. Cicero Ave, Chicago at the bottom. These images depict children in Edwardian-style clothing, a child on a pony, a woman in a period nurse uniform, and themed studio sets including a girl in a sailor suit saluting an American flag and a girl dressed as a nurse with a bandaged teddy bear. One interior photograph shows a domestic entryway with a grandfather clock and a large radio cabinet. Several pages document travel to tropical or colonial regions, showing mountain landscapes, palm trees, a stone church, a large ocean liner, and rural villages with thatched-roof dwellings. The Roycroft leather binding is in good vintage condition with expected signs of age and use. There is visible rubbing along the edges and surfaces of the leather, with bumping at the corners. The decorative string binding is intact. Internally, the mounting pages show light wear and minor creasing at the edges. The photographs are generally well-preserved with clear detail; some prints show minor age-related fading or silvering at the edges. Most photographs remain securely attached.