Charles C. Holbrook (1830–1926) was a wholesale hardware and mining supply store owner in San Francisco whose Elmwood estate in Atherton is now known as Holbrook-Palmer park. In 1889 the Holbrook family made a grand tour across Europe and the Middle East, and these albums document the trip with hand-captioned albumen prints of various scenes. Most photographs are published and many have printed captions; presumably one could request various images to be assembled as a souvenir. In 1957, a fire at the estate destroyed some volumes; the surviving albums were given to Stanford by Charles' granddaughter Harriet Holbrook Hamilton.

7 volume(s)

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