American album
By: [by] Oliver Jensen, Joan Paterson Kerr [and] Murray Belsky.
Contributors: Kerr, Joan Paterson, joint author.; Belsky, Murray, joint author.
Publisher: American Heritage Pub. Co., book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster
Published: 1968
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Photographers -- United States.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918 -- Pictorial works.
Other titles: American heritage.
Description: The purpose of this book is to revisit an utterly vanished earlier America by means of photographs running from 1839, where the first daguerreotypes were taken, until the eve of the First World War, which marks the end of an era, or what we may regard as the beginning of our own time.
Notes: On cover: Rare photographs collected by the editors of American heritage.