Everett Fink
The Ideal Scrap Book

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The Ideal Scrap Book
  • [Album of WWI Army Career, Starting with Draft Call, Newspaper Articles, Official Letters, Military Passes, and Photographs]
Date1917–1920
MediumAlbum of gelatin silver prints, letters, and ephemera
DimensionsOverall: 16 × 11 1/2 in. (40.6 × 29.2 cm)
Credit LineBarbara Levine and Paige Ramey Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2020.137.76
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceBarbara Levine and Paige Ramey; purchased by MFAH, 2020.

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1988
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1866–1907
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Overall recto
Gabriel Huquier
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Etching and engraving on laid paper [proof before cross-hatching added bottom right below sword, before background, no. 1, letters and address]
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Image provided by gallery
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c. 1768–1770
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1910s–1920s
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2017.3.1-.18
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Jeanine Michna-Bales
2022
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2022.275.1-.13
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1894–1900
Gelatin silver prints, letter
2018.204.1-.3
[Scrapbook Made by a Nun of St. Philomena's Convent (Order of Mercy)]
1910s–1920
Album of gelatin silver prints
2020.137.81