{"product_id":"vintage-snapshot-photo-album-containing-200-photographs-english-and-french-travel-churches-villages-chartres-cathedral-leicestershire-and-french-countryside-circa-1940s-1950s-20260611","title":"Lot 130 - Vintage Snapshot Photo Album Containing 200+ Photographs, English and French Travel, Churches, Villages, Chartres Cathedral, Leicestershire, and French Countryside, Circa 1940s-1950s","description":"Vintage black-page photo album containing approximately 200 black-and-white snapshot photographs documenting English and French travel from the late 1940s through the early 1950s. The album is bound with gingham ribbon ties and photographs are mounted with corner tabs. Pages are captioned in white pencil with location names and dates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnglish locations include Ulverscroft Priory, King's Norton, Saddington, Galby, Goddesby, Stapleford, Ketton, and Exton, concentrated in the Leicestershire and Rutland areas of the English Midlands. Subjects include parish churches and their interiors, village streets, country houses, tomb effigies, Norman doorways, and groups of women posed at various sites. French content includes pages captioned \"On the way to Chartres\" dated September 1950, with views of Chartres Cathedral, a French village street with a cafe-restaurant, the Chateau de Faurs, and the town of Ablis. Additional pages dated May 1952 show further English church visits and group outings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome photographs have shifted or detached from corner mounts. Pages show minor handling wear and occasional creasing at edges.","brand":"Granite Union Auction Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52790951182625,"sku":"20260611-LOT130","price":999999.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0073\/9101\/9067\/files\/20260611-0802_ab2a2a4f-e210-407d-89f1-007c2c08b02c.jpg?v=1780322843","url":"https:\/\/graniteunionauction.com\/products\/vintage-snapshot-photo-album-containing-200-photographs-english-and-french-travel-churches-villages-chartres-cathedral-leicestershire-and-french-countryside-circa-1940s-1950s-20260611","provider":"Granite Union Auction Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}