Beauty Spots of Adelaide, S. Australia.

[Circa 1914]. Handmade photo album, 80 x 210 mm, original textured brown paper wrappers with manuscript title in white ink to front ‘Beauty Spots of Adelaide, S. Australia’; containing [5] silver bromide prints, in uniform panoramic format 54 x 155 mm, mounted individually on the rectos of [5] leaves, each with a ms. caption in white ink on the mount; complete; all of the prints, as well as the “album”, are in pristine condition.

A delightful photographic memento of Adelaide – comprising scenes along the River Torrens – made by an amateur photographer around the time of World War One. The prints were taken using a wide angle lens and have a panoramic aspect ratio of 3:1.