Photo album by a French amateur photographer with views of excursions in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and the Netherlands, the first automobiles and car races

Photo album in black half-leather binding. The endpapers are of gold-colored decorative paper. The album contains 50 cardboard leaves with 628 photographs. Usually each page contains 6 to 8 prints of the same format. Occasionally there are photographs in panoramic format. These are images made by a French amateur photographer from wealthy circles. In the period 1896-1904 he/she made excursions with travel companions in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands where many sights were recorded: churches, palaces, forts, castles, ruins, viaducts, bridges, landscapes, villages and cities. They also witnessed the celebration of Mardi Gras and the visit of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna to Paris (1896). The group traveled by automobile, at that time a novelty. Many times this new means of transport, often surrounded by curious onlookers, was captured by the photographer.