Oblong Quarto album (ca. 18,5x29 cm). 48 card stock leaves (one blank). With 142 mounted original gelatin silver photographs, from ca. 11x6,5 cm (4 ½ x 2 ¾ in) to ca. 5x7,5 cm (2 ¼ x 3 in). No captions. First leaf with a mounted paper label, bearing the black ink manuscript title “Home and Gardens; Buildings; Ships and Bridges; Incidentals.” Period brown full sheep leather album fastened with a string; front cover with a gilt-lettered generic title “Photographs.” Binding mildly rubbed on extremities, but overall a very good album with interesting, strong photos.

Historically interesting collection of original photographs capturing California in the 1930s and 1940s. Apparently compiled by a local resident, the album contains about forty images showing major California bridges, including the newly built San Francisco Bay (1936) and Golden Gate Bridges (1937). There are also several interesting photographs of the now-replaced old Fruitvale Bridge in Oakland (built in 1901, replaced in the 1950s) and the third Bay Farm Island Bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area (built in the 1930s, replaced in 1952). The other images show the Diamond Canyon Bridge in Oakland (1926; now the Leimert Bridge), the Carquinez Bridge in Contra Costa and Solano Counties (1927), the Bixby Canyon Bridge in Monterey County (1932), the Park Street Bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area (1935), the Rustic Bridge in Golden Gate Park, etc.

The album also includes over twenty vivid scenes of the 1939-1940 Golden Gate International Exposition, celebrating the completion of the Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay bridges. The photographs show three primary symbols of the event: "The Tower of the Sun" by Arthur Brown Jr., an 80-foot statue of "Pacifica" by Ralph Stackpole, and the Chinese village by Mark Daniels. Several photos depict adjacent landmarks, including the Pool of Nations, Court of the Moon, Home & Gardens Building, Court of Reflections, and Temples of the East. The album also includes over twenty vivid scenes of the 1939-1940 Golden Gate International Exposition, celebrating the completion of the Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay bridges. The photographs show three primary symbols of the event: "The Tower of the Sun" by Arthur Brown Jr., an 80-foot statue of "Pacifica" by Ralph Stackpole, and the Chinese village by Mark Daniels. Several photos depict adjacent landmarks, including the Pool of Nations, Court of the Moon, Home & Gardens Building, Court of Reflections, and Temples of the East.

There are also photos of California missions (Santa Barbara, San Gabriel, San Juan Capistrano, and Carmel), schooners (Old Ironsides - the world's largest ship still afloat, Lottie Bennett, and Owl), the San Francisco Palace of Arts, Stanford Memorial Church, and the Campanile Berkeley.

At the rear, about fifty photographs of the Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks in Wyoming show views of local mountains (Tetons, Teewinot, Washburn), geysers (Castle, Grotto, Gian, Excelsior, Clepsydra, Cliff), canyons (Grand, Yellowstone), rivers (Yellowstone, Snake), lakes (Jenny, Jackson), falls (Tower, Upper & Lower Yellowstone, Gibbons), etc. Overall, a historically interesting album with 142 gelatin silver photographs capturing California in the late 1930s and 1940s.