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Paulsen, Erik? : Original Photograph Album - Erik Paulsen, c. 1930s-1950s, Norway, New York, and Other Locations

Blue paper-covered boards with yellow string binding. Gilt decorations on front cover. Interior leaves are made of black paper. An original photograph album featuring Erik Paulsen and his family, relatives, friends, and acquaintances. The photo album contains 270 photographs, 269 of which are in black-and-white and one of which is in color (last page). Album: 15 3/4" x 10 3/4." Photos vary in size but most are about 4" x 6" or smaller. Twenty leaves. 270 photographs. Many pages have multiple photographs. With the exception of eight, all of the photos are inserted into tipped-in paper corners. Photos are very clean and intact except for the occasional wrinkle and light age toning. Pages are very clean and intact except for minuscule soiling, slight fading, a few wrinkles, and slight wear to extremities. Covers are very clean and intact except for slight rubbing to gilt decorations, minuscule wear to extremities, and a vertical crease along front outer joint. The album is Very Good as a whole. Erik Paulsen (1912-?) lived in Bergen, Norway and immigrated to the United States in about 1940. In the U.S., he lived in New York City, likely in Brooklyn. He was part of a Norwegian social club in New York called Bondeungdomslaget through which he participated in track and skating activities. In the mid-1940s (possibly in 1946), Paulsen moved to San Francisco, and by 1948, he was living in Seattle where he operated an importing company called Scandinavian Corners, Scandinavian Importing. He continued in this line of work into at least the early 1970s. Of the 270 photos, about 100 show Paulsen living in Norway in the 1930s, and about sixty-five show him living in the New York City area from about 1940-1945 and participating in outdoor activities at Lake Telemark, New Jersey. The following are some of the subjects depicted in the photos: portraits of family and friends in various indoor and outdoor locations; Paulsen participating in recreational shooting, a boat ride on the Jupiter in Bergen; a photo postcard of a sled; people swimming and horseback-riding; Paulsen doing the high jump for track and field; Golden Gate Bridge; a child's first birthday; the Continental Divide at Berthoud Pass; South Bend, Indiana; Niagara Falls; Long Island; and wedding portraits.. Ephemera. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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