1860s Lake Lucerne, Souvenir Album, 10 very early albumen photos, Switzerland

Souvenir

Lac des IV Cantons

No publisher’s date or address. [ca 1865]

7.8 x 11.8 cm

Photographs measure 10.1 x 6.2 cm

Original cloth binding with gilt lettering (some damage)

Unusual folded album of albumen photographs depicting the city of Lucerne and villages surrounding the lake. This is the earliest example of the use of photography in a souvenir booklet that we have seen. Some photographs captioned in ink.

Exceedingly rare. No example recorded in OCLC.