Voyage d’Amérique. Etats-Unis et Canada. 1901.

Large folio (345 x 480 mm), brown shagreen, smooth spine, gilt edges; rubbing and scuffs on the covers, good interior condition (contemporary binding).

Superb album containing 238 captioned photographs of the tour of the United States and Canada taken by three young men in 1901.

An interesting account of the tourist activities of the time, with photographs of hotels, journeys between different destinations, and group activities and visits.

Note that the travelers were welcomed, rode horses, and went pigeon shooting with financier and industrialist André Poniatowski (1864-1954) in Burlingame. There is also a photograph of the children of William Henry Crocker (1861-1961), his partner, whose father was one of the Big Four of American railroads.
There is also a photograph taken in Newport of Katherine Alexander Duer Mackey (1878-1930), "Madame Clarence Mackay," a suffragist and New York writer.
The names Mac Call (friends of the travelers), Louise Ferrier, Selica Daboval, Diesbach, Fassy, ​​and "Prince Carlos" also appear.

Trip details and photographs:

• Washington (9 photographs: Lafayette Monuments, St. John Cabin, the Potomac, etc.)
• Virginia's Natural Bridge (9 photographs: The Natural Bridge, the torrent, view from my room, us and our luggage, etc.)
• The Land of the Sky (6 photographs: Battery Park Hotel in Asheville, cable car in Chattanooga, American Trotter, etc.)
• Chattanoga (sic) - Jacksonville (6 photographs: Jacksonville 48 hours after the fire, ruins, back view of an American soldier, etc.)
• Florida (6 photographs: St. John River, Tampa Bay Hotel, etc.)
• Louisiana (6 photographs: a train on a boat crossing the Mississippi to New Orleans, train dock and pontoon boat, Mac Call, etc.)
• Mac Call and his hosts (6 photographs: Fassy and Mac Call Sr., departure for the walk, Diesbach and Mac Call Jr., etc.)
• The Rocky Mountains (6 photographs: railroad along the Arkansas River, Yellowstone Park (Four Auction House), express locomotive, etc.)
• Yellowstone Park (18 photographs: Waterfalls and torrent leaps, active River Geyser, Yellowstone River, Lower Geyser Basin, the lake steamer, cooking fish in a geyser, lunch under a tent, petrified waterfall, Yellowstone Canyon, etc.)
• From Yellowstone Park to Yosemite Valley, and Yosemite Valley (18 photographs: Mammoth Hot Springs, view of Yosemite, view of the valley, Castle Roe, Bridal Veil Fall, Glacier Point, Mariposa Big Trees, etc.)
• California and Burlingame (12 photographs: Prince Poniatowski's, Burlingame Pigeon Shooting, Burlingame Baths on San Francisco Bay, the racetrack, Mr. Crocker's Children, etc.)
• From California to Arizona and in Canada (6 photographs: Prince Poniatowski's cars await us at the Burlingame station, Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Shasta station, etc.)
• Travel to Alaska (36 photographs: Vancouver Island mine owner's castle, in the fjords, Victoria pier, life on board, arrival in Sitka, Skagway, Juneau (gold mines), Fort Wrangel, White Pass, Totem pole (3), small Indian houses, etc.).
• Rocky Mountains of Canada (30 photographs: Glacier House station, Illecillewaet Glacier, Illecillewaet stream, avalanche damage, at the foot of the glacier, Banff Valley, etc.).
• Banff, Canada and Quebec (36 photographs: Niagara Falls, the rapids, general view of Montreal and the St. Lawrence River, Victoria Bridge, Champlain Statue, Château de Frontenac, Montmorency Falls, etc.)
• Newport (24 photographs: Hotel New Cliffs, Madame Clarence Mackay, beach, electric car in the streets of Newport, views of yachts in the bay, etc.)
• Departure from New York (4 photographs: leaving the port, etc.)

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