Item #15187 [Catalogue of Bromide Enlargements of European and American Paintings and Landscape and Architectural Photographs]. TRADE CATALOGUE, Soule Art Publishing Co.
[Catalogue of Bromide Enlargements of European and American Paintings and Landscape and Architectural Photographs]
[Catalogue of Bromide Enlargements of European and American Paintings and Landscape and Architectural Photographs]
[Catalogue of Bromide Enlargements of European and American Paintings and Landscape and Architectural Photographs]
[Catalogue of Bromide Enlargements of European and American Paintings and Landscape and Architectural Photographs]

[Catalogue of Bromide Enlargements of European and American Paintings and Landscape and Architectural Photographs]

Boston: Soule Art Publishing Co., 1907.

Hardcover. Very good. 10" x 12.5" album, with 100 bromide prints mounted on 50 cardboard leaves. Three quarter leather and black buckram with satin endpapers. Printed price list affixed to front pastedown. Scuffing to leather, mild rubbing to a few images; very good. An untitled salesman's catalogue offering a images for sale by the Soule Art Publishing Company, whch operated in the Boston area from 1859 to around 1918, and boasted in a 1906 advertisement that they offered "20,000 subjects in all grades, sizes, and prices." Althought they had a private mail order trade, a large part of their business seems to have been selling images to schools for classroom use. Each image is numbered (101-200) and captioned by hand, and the maximum enlargement size is noted. According to the price list, prints can be ordered in sizes ranging from 8 x 10 to 40 x 60, in black and white or in sepia, and with frames in a variety of sizes. Includes photographic reproductions of European and American paintings (many with historic content, but also landscapes, portraits, and domestic scenes), as well as original photographs of architectural and archaeological sites (Greek and Roman ruins, cathedrals, the Alhambra, British castles, a California mission) and landscapes (a Scottish loch, Mt. Hood, Mt. Shasta, etc). In all, an interesting record of the role of photography in education in the early twentieth century.

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