Title: Constance Johnson Vaux collection of viewbooks and postcards
Description: 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.
Subjects: Pictorial works, World War, 1914-1918, Destruction and pillage, Castles, History, Photographs, American Committee for Devastated France, Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (1925 : Paris, France)
Places: France, Paris (France), Rome (Italy), Venice (Italy), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)
Time periods: 1914-1940