956 - Germany - Saxony - Travel Memories (Title on Cover). Album containing 49 original photographs mounted in paper frames; the photographs are then pasted into the album and handwritten on the reverse. Vintage. Silver gelatin. Toned. Saxony, circa 1900. Full-leather album. Transverse folio. Print size predominantly approx. 10 x 15 cm. Most mounts also bear handwritten place names on the front. Binding loose, one rivet missing; overall in good condition.

Germany - Saxony - Travel Memories (Title on Cover). Album containing 49 original photographs mounted in paper frames; the photographs are then pasted into the album and handwritten on the reverse. Vintage. Silver gelatin. Toned. Saxony, circa 1900. Full-leather album. Transverse folio. Print size predominantly approx. 10 x 15 cm. Most mounts also bear handwritten place names on the front. Binding loose, one rivet missing; overall in good condition. These high-quality professional photographs depict houses and streetscapes in cities predominantly located in Saxony, such as Pirna (2 photographs), Ehrenfriedersdorf (2), Apolda (5), Waldenburg (2), Kötzschenbroda (2), Frauenstein (2), Meissen, Wittenberg, Copitz, Torgau, Pulsnitz, Freiberg, Radeberg, Bautzen, Oschatz, and others (one photograph each). The focus is usually on shops, restaurants, and other small businesses. The collection thus offers a representative cross-section not only of Saxon urban development of the time but also of the economic structure of contemporary small-scale Saxon commerce, which certainly ceased to exist in this form shortly thereafter and for which this album likely provides the only surviving photographic evidence. - Prints are somewhat pale in places, but otherwise in good condition. #