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Constance Johnson Vaux collection of viewbooks and postcards

Souvenir viewbooks, commercial photographs, and postcards collected by Constance Johnson Vaux from her travels in France and elsewhere. Many of the images show various locations in France before and after World War I, including Paris, Versailles, Reims, Verdun, Blérancourt, Soissons, the Argonne Forest, and the French Riviera. Views depict war damage, monuments, cemeteries, French soldiers and citizens, cities, towns, hotels, churches, and castles, including many of Château de Loches, Château de Malmaison, Château de Chenonceau, and Château at Amboise. Other subjects include: architecture at the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in Paris; art reproductions of the Panthéon de la Guerre cyclorama, nude paintings from the Paris Salon, and renaissance paintings from the Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace in Florence; views of Rome, Venice, and Amsterdam; Stanserhorn in the Swiss Alps; temple ruins in Baalbek; and scenes from the Canadian Rockies, the Columbia River Highway in Oregon, and Puerto Rico.

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English
Pages
362

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Collection title devised.

Identified photographers include Neurdein Frères of Paris, E. Richter of Rome, J. Giletta of Nice, and Associated Screen News, Ltd., of Montreal.

Chiefly gelatin silver prints and collotypes, with some rotogravures and a few halftone photomechanical prints and lithographs.

Printed captions on most photographs and postcards in English, French, or Italian.

American Committee for Devastated France Records, 1919-1926, available in Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University Library. Call number: MC026.

Associated materials: Constance Johnson Vaux Papers, located in Schlesinger Library. Call number: A/V384.

Constance Johnson Vaux (1898-1994) represented the Commonwealth Trust Company of Boston, Mass., in the 1923 Good Will Delegation to France sponsored by the American Committee for Devastated France. She married Joseph Vaux in 1930 and lived in Westwood, Mass., where she worked as a librarian at the public library.

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Format
[graphic]
Pagination
23 items (362 photographic prints, 91 photomechanical prints) : 265 photomechanical and photographic prints (chiefly postcards)
Number of pages
362

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OL49969383M

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