Photo Album on ICP Collection Blog

Monday, 28 June, 2010

In 2009, The Barbara Levine Collection of early vernacular photograph albums was acquired by the International Center of Photography.  One of the albums was recently featured in Fans In A Flashbulb, the ICP's collection blog.

Frank H. Hodges’s Columbia Poultry Farm, Red Bank, New Jersey by Erin Barnett

Frank H. Hodges (1869–after 1916) raised award-winning birds at his Columbia Poultry Farm in Red Bank, New Jersey. Hodges was born in New York and spent his early working years selling butter, eggs, and poultry wholesale. He moved to Red Bank in 1898 and had owned the farm for about six years when this album was made; there are newspaper clippings of prizes won at 1903 and 1904 poultry fairs pasted into the album. In addition to documenting the house and the farm buildings, the photographs depict each breed of pigeon, chicken, and duck raised in the farm. These amazing portraits of prize-winning birds are artfully arranged on the page and adorned with the sitters’ feathers. click for full article