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1920 · 134025 — Brooklyn New York: Brooklyn Public Library 1920. Hardcover. Good ex-library with a few marks and stamps binding solid one or more postcards separated un-glued toning of old newspaper clippings pages wavy probably from glue moisture though there is an occasional localized dampstain. Blue library buckram silt spine titles unpaginated approx. 100 pages with with pasted color illustrations on both sites approx. 25 leaves blank. OVERSIZE GA2. A scrapbook of images of architecture and color images of many beautiful places and things produced the early 1900s. Many are of New York City but also around the country and world presumably collected by the Brooklyn Public Library. Includes many large samples of the work of illustrator Louis Biedermann 1874-1957 along with Clara M. Burd Charles Livingston Burd Adolph Triedler Wilfred Jones Fred Kulz Chum Vine Edmond Oakdale Vincent Lynch and Mary Bassett. News articles from the New York Herald show articles with large color illustrations of views of cities and bridges. Travel postcards from the era depict architecture throughout the world. Includes stained glass windows a real slice of life during an age when color images in magazines and periodicals were fairly new and illustrators. Artcyclopedia calls the years of 1880-1920 the Golden Age of Illustration: it “was a period of unprecedented excellence in book and magazine illustration. It developed from advances in technology permitting accurate and inexpensive reproduction of art combined with a voracious public demand for new graphic art.†Probably a librarian's pet project. Brooklyn Public Library hardcover