Collections : [Yale University -The Lewis Walpole Library]

The album contains snapshot photographs taken in Italy (March-April 1921), Spain (1922), England (1923), France, Switzerland, Italy, and Fairfield (1924), North Africa (January 1925), and Connecticut and Newport (1925). Also in the album is a watercolor view of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, signed at lower right "G Marini." The album was likely purchased by the Auchinclosses in Italy in 1921 and contains a number of commercial photographs published by Italian and Spanish firms.

The album opens with the Auchincloss-Lewis wedding announcements clipped from New York newspapers followed by snapshots from wedding trips to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Italy (January-March 1928), images of friends and family in Farmington, Southampton (NY), and Newport (1928), Farmington and Newport (1929), Farmington (1930), Farmington, Newport, France, and England (1931), and Farmington, Newport, Fairfield, and England (1932). The latter year includes views at Strawberry Hill, and the album concludes with a printed menu from the 1931 Johnson Club dinner at Pembroke College, Cambridge. A graphite sketch by Patty Bacon is laid in at the end of the album. The tooled leather album was made in Italy for the New York luggage firm Crouch and Fitzgerald.

The album opens with two photographs of the interior of the New Library taken in 1933 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's photographer, while he was in Farmington photographing collection material for Lewis's article "The Genesis of Strawberry Hill," published in Metropolitan Museum Studies 5, no. 1 (August 1934); the photographs were not included in the article. They are, followed by snapshot photographs of friends and family in Newport, England, and Farmington (1933); Newport, Salisbury, and California (1934); Farmington, England, and Newport (1935); Farmington, Charleston, Florida, Jekyll Island, England, and Scotland (1936); Farmington, Jekyll Island, New York City (from the Queen Mary), England, Newport, and Fairfield (1937); and Farmington, Jekyll Island, England, and Newport (1938). 1935 images include two documenting the visit of art museum directors to the Cowles House; 1936 images include six of partygoers attending Marie T. Bissell's dinner in Farmington prior to the Wadsworth Atheneum's Paper Ball; and 1938 images include views of Farmington following the great hurricane of that year.

Covers two trips: New York-Edinburgh-Strathpeffer-London-New York (1913), and New York-Niagara Falls-Seattle-Western Canada-Montreal-Boston-Newport (1915).

Submitted to Harper's Magazine for publication

A folding leather travel frame, gold-stamped with "ABA" monogram and "Made in France," accompanied by five photographs of friends formerly held within. The photographs are uncaptioned and unidentified.