The Grand Tour Travel Album, featured in the 2017 PHSNE Journal, is a unique treasure. It documents an 80-day, 11,900-mile European tour during the summer of 1889 by four young, unmarried women: Cora, Harriet, June and “Myself,” the album’s photographer, souvenir photo buyer, caption writer, and curator. The album includes very early Kodak snapshots taken with a Kodak #1 camera, together with many commercial souvenir photographs, all painstakingly curated, organized, dated, captioned, and preserved by “Myself.”

Their adventure began in June 1889, leaving New York for Liverpool on the SS Celtic, then journeyed from England to Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and France before returning via England to New York in September. The album is a vivid personal visual diary, filled with views of cityscapes, buildings, candid snapshots, life aboard White Star liners, and much more.

PHSNE has shared the first six pages of the Grand Tour Travel Album below. Please note that the entire Travel Album is available on Magcloud in print and in downloadable PDF. The latter costs just $10.00 online.

Published by: PHSNE – Photographic Historical Society of New England, Inc

Published:7/8/2019  Specs: Square12″ x 12″ 90 pages Wire-O lay-flat binding. © 2018

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2017 Grand Tour Travel Album

PHSNE has included the first six pages of the Grand Tour Travel Album shared here in PDF.