1950 Hand-Colored Photographs of the UK & Wales

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1950 PHOTOGRAPH-ALBUM. --EXTENSIVE PHOTO-TRAVELOGUE of Post-WW2 ENGLAND & WALES-- (158) hand-colored & tinted b&w photographs of the outdoors and topographical scenes in England's seaside towns of Devon & Cornwall, street scenes near Canterbury Cathedral, and lake areas in Wales.

DEFTLY COMPOSED, FINE QUALITY PHOTOGRAPHS-- beautifully hand-tinted and colored, the photographs are annotated with handwritten captions.

Photos are mostly 3"x 5", a few are 6"x 9", glue-mounted to heavy-stock paper (with onionskins between), in a vintage blue leather album, folio size, 10" x 12". There are a handful of postcards (Cox's Cave, Somerset) and (12) mini- snapshots bought at Canterbury Cathedral.

• Wells, Somerset/ Cathedral City/ Cheddar Gorge, Somerset/ Dunster, Somerset- yarn market, Minehead 
• Bristol Channel to Wales/ View from White Stones/ Selworthy/ N. Devon
• Combe Martin/ Hartland Quay/ Clovelly / N. Cornwall/ Rosemery/ Cape Cornwall/ The Longship Lighthouse
• Lamorna Cove/ Port Hleven/ Newlyn Harbour/ Fowey & Polruan/ St. Austell / Bodmin Moor/ Dartmoor/ Polperro
• Gunnislake/ Plymouth crossing, S. Devon/ Buckfast Abbey/ Tor-bay
• Cirencester/ Ludlow/ Lake Bala in Gwynedd, Wales/ Moel-y-Dinas/ Bylchan Denbighshiere/ Ormes Bay/ LLandrinio
• Bryn Eisteddfod/ Conway Harbour on the north coast of Wales/ Monmouth on Wye/ Marlborough, Savernake Forest, Beaulieu River
• Winchester/ Dover Castle/ Chalk Cliffs at Seaford/ Birling Gap/ Kent/ Chilham/ Canterbury. 

Wonderful condition. Domestic s&h $15. Buy it Now