[Large albumen photograph album of travel through England, Switzerland, and France with 45 photos, many with captions, a scenic miniature landscape painting of Chillon Castle on Lake Geneva, as well as two colour chromolithographs of Tellsplatte on the shore of Lake Lucerne, and Axenstrasse].

[Portland, OR: Fred Lockley, ca. 1885]. Folio. [30 leaves (unnumbered).] 46 sepia-tinted albumen photos ranging in size from 3.75 x 6.0 in. to 8 x 11 in. mounted on thick card stock on linen hinges, most with manuscript identifications below the images, some w/ info in lower fore-edge of negative (1 small image 2.75 x 3.5 in. hand-coloured), 1 oil painting on stiff board, inserted into corners sized 2.5 x 3 in.; 2 colour chromolith cards, beveled edges w/ gilt, captions in lower fore-edge sized 3.25 x 5 in. Contemporary embossed & decorated red cloth over beveled boards, raised lettering in green & gilt on front cover, decorative motifs stamped in gilt & black on front cover (some wear, rubbing, minor soiling upper fore-edge back cover, minor wear to corners, rebacked), still VG exemplar from the library of noted Spokane, WA librarian and historian, George Washington Fuller (1876-1940), presented to him by Fred Lockley (1871-1958), Oregon historian, and journalist for the Oregon Journal. This splendid and large photo album contains albumen photos and souvenirs collected during a Victorian grand tour in the 1870s. The album opens with images of Warwick Castle, Kenilworth Castle, the cottage of Anne Hathaway, and Shakespeare’s Home Stratford-on-Avon; along with views of Trafalgar Square, Hotel Metropole, Westminster, the Tower of London, and Windsor Castle by H. Brooks by James Valentine (1815-1879), noted Scottish photographer, whose sons William Dobson Valentine and George D. Valentine carried on the business into the Edwardian era. The many photos of sites in Switzerland include a two photo panorama of the famed pedestrian footbridge, the Pont des Bergues in Geneva; a splendid image of climbers on a glacier near Chamonix; as well as views of Bern, Lake Geneva, Interlaken, the stunning Hotel Giessbach and the Giessbach Falls above Lake Brienz; the Gutsch-Bahn Hotel and Talstation, and more. The album concludes with a number of large albumen photos showing the Paris altered by Georges-Eugene Haussmann, commissioned by Napoleon III. These include views of the Boulevard de la Madeleine; Place de la Concorde, l’Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, the Paris Opera House, and even a view of the front portico of Notre Dame. Of special interest is the small oil painting of Castle Chillon, a Medieval Castle with the oldest sections erected before 1005, and proved a pivotal outpost on the eastern end of Lake Geneva.