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[Snapshot Record of One Family's Visits to all 50 State Capitols]
[Snapshot Record of One Family's Visits to all 50 State Capitols]
The meticulous photographic record of the Drogmiller family of Toledo, Ohio, documenting their visits to all 50 U.S. State Capitols from 1967-1988 (lower 48 visited from 1967-1976; Alaska in 1978; Hawaii in 1988). Each print notated with location and date, usually at margins, but over the image with all of the later, borderless color prints. The trips are additionally detailed via a mounted, typed sheet to inside front cover and a laid-in, three sheet manuscript list recording the different family cars used.
A departure from the typical American travel album, the buildings are the focus, rather than the family members. When the Drogmillers do appear their expressions are stoic, perhaps owing to their intense itineraries, no doubt laid-out by the family patriarch, Fred. Between August 22 and September 1, 1970, for instance, they visited 11 Capitals alone, starting in Harrisburg, PA and ending in Albany. No time for dilly-dallying.
The most access to any Capitol came in Alabama (1973), where a clear series has the family visiting the office of then-Gov. George Wallace. Southern Capitols in general, seem to have received a more sympathetic treatment from the photographer(s). Formats range from deckle-edged black and white snapshots, black and white Polaroids, square Kodacolor, and finally color drugstore prints, covering the evolution of popular consumer photography formats during the second half of the 20th Century.
A compelling and unusual record of American family travel through the 1960's and 1970's (and a little bit of the 1980's).
[Photography] : [Travel] : [Americana]. THE 50 STATE CAPITOLS: 1967 to 1988 [Spine Title - Original Photograph Album]. Toledo, Ohio: 1967-1988. Large 4to. square album. Metal snap-ring commercial binder. Approximately 11" square. Red vinyl covered boards. 238 snapshot photographs (133 black and white; 105 color) and a few scrap elements loosely fit into 20, new clear archival leaves (original non-archival pages discarded, original image order maintained throughout). Contents clean, well preserved. About very good or better throughout.
The meticulous photographic record of the Drogmiller family of Toledo, Ohio, documenting their visits to all 50 U.S. State Capitols from 1967-1988 (lower 48 visited from 1967-1976; Alaska in 1978; Hawaii in 1988). Each print notated with location and date, usually at margins, but over the image with all of the later, borderless color prints. The trips are additionally detailed via a mounted, typed sheet to inside front cover and a laid-in, three sheet manuscript list recording the different family cars used.
A departure from the typical American travel album, the buildings are the focus, rather than the family members. When the Drogmillers do appear their expressions are stoic, perhaps owing to their intense itineraries, no doubt laid-out by the family patriarch, Fred. Between August 22 and September 1, 1970, for instance, they visited 11 Capitals alone, starting in Harrisburg, PA and ending in Albany. No time for dilly-dallying.
The most access to any Capitol came in Alabama (1973), where a clear series has the family visiting the office of then-Gov. George Wallace. Southern Capitols in general, seem to have received a more sympathetic treatment from the photographer(s). Formats range from deckle-edged black and white snapshots, black and white Polaroids, square Kodacolor, and finally color drugstore prints, covering the evolution of popular consumer photography formats during the second half of the 20th Century.
A compelling and unusual record of American family travel through the 1960's and 1970's (and a little bit of the 1980's).
[Photography] : [Travel] : [Americana]. THE 50 STATE CAPITOLS: 1967 to 1988 [Spine Title - Original Photograph Album]. Toledo, Ohio: 1967-1988. Large 4to. square album. Metal snap-ring commercial binder. Approximately 11" square. Red vinyl covered boards. 238 snapshot photographs (133 black and white; 105 color) and a few scrap elements loosely fit into 20, new clear archival leaves (original non-archival pages discarded, original image order maintained throughout). Contents clean, well preserved. About very good or better throughout.