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Vintage 1926 Berg Family Reunion Photo Album 4x6 Sepia Gelatin Silver Prints
Vintage original 1926 Berg family reunion photo album with typical age-related handling and storage wear to covers, pages, and prints. Brown card covers show surface rubbing, scattered dark spots and ring-like moisture marks, soft corner and edge wear, spine crease lines, fraying to the original cord tie, and some fading to the front title lettering but remain structurally sound. Black album leaves display light waviness, small abrasions, glue and paper residue, and ghost outlines where items were once positioned, while the mounted sepia gelatin-silver photographs show overall toning, surface scuffs visible in glare, speckled emulsion wear around borders, occasional small stains including a faint reddish mark on one view, slight curl, and one print with a piece of black paper adhered along the lower edge.
Original vintage 1926 sepia-tone photo album with front cover titled in green lettering "PHOTOGRAPAS of the Berg Family Reunion 1926," documenting a Berg family reunion gathering in a domestic yard and garden setting.
The brown textured card covers are bound at the spine edge with the original tan cord tie and enclose black paper leaves, each holding mounted sepia gelatin-silver snapshot prints showing groups of men, women, and children posed together outdoors, standing in front of clapboard houses, porches, stone steps, and well-tended flower beds.
Scenes include informal family group portraits, smaller views of individual couples and sisters, and wider garden and yard views that together form a visual record of early 20th-century domestic and family life at a reunion, with early pages bearing pencil captions such as "Mother & Uncle Charles" and "Mother – Right" written beneath the photographs.
Two loose handwritten note cards from Charles to the family accompany the album, one mentioning a wish that they could be together at Christmas and a visit to the Congressional Library to look up a family record book, and the other explaining that he is sending each relative a small album of these pictures "as a visual reminder of our pleasant hours," adding provenance and personal context for the images.
The album and notes are offered together as original 1920s Berg family reunion memorabilia suitable for collectors of vernacular family photography, genealogy, and early sepia gelatin-silver prints focused on people and domestic life.
MSC192-81
