Photograph Album of Fox Hunting Images Compiled by Betty Babcock, Member of the Meadow Brook Hounds and Author of "Betty Babcock's Illustrated Hunting Diary"

Various Places: 1930s. Large pictorial "Scrap Book" binding containing 48 photographs, mostly 8 x 10" images taken by professional photographers, most accompanied by handwritten captions. A photo album compiled by Betty Babcock, depicting the huntsmen, horses, and hounds of the Meadow Brook Hounds engaged in various hunts and riding events, including meets at West Hills, Harford, Aiken, and Piping Rock. Founded in 1877 on the North Shore of Long Island, the Meadow Brook Hounds was among the most prominent of packs in America. Babcock, an amateur artist, wrote "Betty Babcock's Illustrated Hunting Diary, Recording the Sport of the Season for the Followers of the Meadow Brook Hounds" (New York, 1945), depicting meets in which the group participated; Babcock appears in a majority of these photographs, with the captions identifying her by her initials ("B.B."), alongside other prominent riders including Harvey Ladew and Harry T. Peters, who was also a prominent collector of American lithographs and expert on Currier and Ives prints. Two pages of the album contain pasted in clippings describe "Just Hunting," a fox hunting book written by Peters and illustrated by Babcock. Laid in is a print from a Babcock illustration titled "Cheeha-Cumbahee 1941" depicting participants in a hunt held at a low country Plantation in South Carolina. Some images creased or stamped, section of one leaf cut out of album. Item #5576

Price: $2,000.00