Album - Photo Album, Wal Jack, Germany and Europe, 1950's

Historical information

The album originally started as a the Geelong album and remnants of photos hinges and notes left on the sheets. Has some 101 black and white photographs. All of the photographs would have been obtained from his correspondents. Cities include:
Bendigo steam loco and carriage - tram 1895
Dusseldorf
Bonn
Essen
Halle
Hamm
Herford
Gladbach
Hamburg
Bremen
Duisburg
Wupertal
Bamberg
Koln
Munich
Wuppertal - schwebebahn
Salzburg
The Hague
Amsterdam
Montreux
Geneva
Athens
Odessa
Moscow
Brux
Onaden
Berlin
Augsburg
Heilbron
Waldenberg
Darmstadt
Mannheim
Remscheid
Belgium
Hagen
Lille
Aachen
Heidelberg
Duren
Bremen
Worms
Wurzburg
LeipZig
Copenhagen
Linz
Brussels
Dortmund
Nuremberg
Hannover
Letmathe
Kustrin
Leige
Emden
Amiens
Trieste
Rome
Naples
Le bourget-du-lac
Grenoble
Madrid
valencia

Significance

Has a strong association with Wal Jack and his collecting of tramway history / developments until 1964.

Physical description

Brown covered bound album with word "Scrap Album on front cover, with dark brown paper inside covers holding some 15 sheets of card on which photos have been mounted using photo corners of various types, captions in black ink with some labels pasted under the photos in black ink.

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