Download or read book American Album written by Oliver Jensen and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to revisit an utterly vanished earlier America by means of photographs running from 1839, where the first daguerreotypes were taken, until the eve of the First World War, which marks the end of an era, or what we may regard as the beginning of our own time.