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Annie L. Jobs Photograph Album, 1884-1887
All but one of the photographs pasted into the scrapbook have a sepia color and were probably produced by an albumen print process, which the Eastman Museum calls the "dominant print method in the 1850s-1890s." The albumen (from egg whites), which eventually discolors to brown, is responsible for the color.
The photographs are of people, tents, buildings, and landscapes in and around the general Flint area, annotated in Mrs. Jobs' handwriting.
Flint became a ghost town and was quite remote at the time, but due to the mining operations (silver and antinomy, lead and copper, with a little gold) the Idaho Northern Railroad stopped there and could have brought photographic supplies.