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Do you know anything about vintage, string bound photo albums made by "Wharton Clay" You came up on a Goggle search. I have a 1940 West Point photo album from my dad's mother. I want to clean the cover material and possible get some original style string to re-bind it. .Any info or direction would be appreciated

Hi there! I think I may have appeared in the Google results because of this cabinet card -- the name of the girl was Flossie Wharton Clay.

Unfortunately, I don't know anything about those photo albums, however, I found a couple of books mentioned during a quick search. You may have already seen them, though! Apologies, if so.

In this book, Wharton Clay photo albums are mentioned on page 22. On the same page, they mention a book called Photo Album Structure, 1850-1960, by Richard Horton, which sounds a little promising.

I hope this helps, somewhat!

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Details of the Edwardian schoolgirls RPPC.

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Italian prayer card, sent by my pen-pal. 

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Another cute photo from my pen-pal. 

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Photograph of three sweet kids, sent by my Italian pen-pal. How cute are their clothes?! 30′s-40′s-50′s, I’m guessing? 

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Italian prayer card, sent by my pen-pal. 

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French prayer card. 

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1920′s RPPC of two sisters playing dress-up. I adore these two young royals! 

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Edwardian school girls, and one of my old favourites from my grandma’s family album! I love the expressions on all the girls’ faces; they all look like interesting characters! 

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Boys playing soldiers. From the old family album my grandma gave me.

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This handsome chap has been sent to my pen-pal in Italy! I have no clues about his origins since there isn’t any information on the back or the front, but I found him in an antique bookstore in Liverpool. 

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I received some new CDVs and cabinet cards today! I’m particularly excited about them since they’re a bit different to what I usually find myself buying. One is a CDV of a baby/toddler in a black velvet, lacy dress, and the other is an identified cabinet card with a photo of a grave site (rather than a person)!

I still have lots to share, but life is getting in the way a bit. 

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A detail from the honey-toned pages of Bernadette, 1935. 

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A couple of pages from “Bernadette” magazine, 2nd June 1935. 

This is a selection of pages from a little illustrated story called “The Jug of Honey”. I have the feeling that Bernadette was intended for audiences of young/preteen girls, having sections on needlecraft, short stories, puzzles, colouring in, and religion. 

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Bernadette, 2nd June 1935.

I bought quite a lot of these cute French magazines at an antique textiles fair earlier this year - funnily enough, the only things I came away with were 5 “Bernadette” magazines, a prayer card, and a roll of 1930′s lace, when there was about a hundred stalls with authentic clothes and fabrics from the 17th Century to the 60′s (expensive, obviously, so that was the only reason I didn’t go wild)! 

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The back of “Home Chat” from the 7th July 1917, full of advertisements.