1920s Photo Album Showing Churches & Homes Constructed from Stone Supplied by the North Carolina Granite Company
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Chehalis, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Post-bound album containing 27 linen-backed silver prints showing (with one exception) residential and institutional construction projects completed using granite supplied by the North Carolina Granite Company of Mt. Airy. NC. The exception is a photo of a stack of flagstones at the quarry. Each photo is 7.5 x 9.5 inches, and nearly all have identifying information on the front. Label at the back of the album identifies it as "Book Number Twenty Two" and lists the photo numbers it contains. Labels at both front and back identify the album as on loan to Dearborn, MIchigan, sales agent Charles H. Gall. Includes images of the St. Charles Seminary (Overbrook, PA); Roman Catholic Church Rectory (Philadelphia); Zion Reformed Church (Baltimore); First Presbyterian Church (Mt. Airy, NC); First Evangelical Church (Williamsport, PA); Harlem Methodist Episcopal Church (Baltimore); Bethesda Methodist Episcopal Church (Salisbury, MD); Moravian Church (Mount Airy, NC); Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church (Baltimore); and residences in Greensboro, Winston Salem, Mt. Airy, and Asheville, NC. The album itself is well worn, with rear board detached (but present), loss at spine and some black cloth tape repairs to the edges. Photographs all very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walkabout Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23561
- Title
- 1920s Photo Album Showing Churches & Homes Constructed from Stone Supplied by the North Carolina Granite Company
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Photography;
Terms of Sale
Walkabout Books
All books returnable for any reason within 21 days of receipt, provided they are in the original condition. Shipping costs fully refunded if an item is misdescribed or defective. Refund of purchase price only for returns for other reasons.
About the Seller
Walkabout Books
Biblio member since 2011
Chehalis, Washington
About Walkabout Books
Walkabout Books is an antiquarian bookstore located in southwest Washington State. We specialize in Americana and the literature of travel and adventure, including travel narratives, travel and tourism ephemera (travel diaries, vintage brochures, guidebooks, etc), exploration, mountaineering, and other outdoor pursuits. We also carry interesting and unusual books in many other fields.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...