Record ID:
87075
Accession number:
MA 8506
Credit:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description:
1 album (50 pages) ; 33.5 x 26 cm
Notes:
An album containing the postal cards collected by James Agee during his bicycle tour of France and England with Father James Flye in the summer of 1925, and assembled by him into this album in the autumn of that year. Some postal cards contain penciled notes on the verso. A card signed "Rufus Agee / Souvenir of Summer 1925 / Nov. 27th / '25" is adhered to the front pastedown. Interleaved with typed descriptions of each postcard and with transcriptions of notes on the versos of the postcards, if present.
Housed in:
Black cloth drop-spine box (35.5 cm)
Binding:
Contemporary commercial postcard album, upper cover printed with flowers, an image of an idealized 18th-century woman reading correspondence, and "Post Cards."
Provenance:
Carter Burden.
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