Diverse Voices in Photographic Albums

Introduction

1. The Album's Diverse Histories

Mary Trent

Complicating Family Narratives

2. Women on Holiday: Intergenerational Narratives in Photographic Albums from India

Suryanandini Narain

3. 'Children of Shadowland': A Family's Scrapbook Story of Intellectual Disability

James Trent

4. Henry Darger's Album of Orphans and Fugitives

Mary Trent

Stepping Out of "the Closet," Privately

5. 'Dropping Hairpins': Cisgender Performance and 'Homosociality' in William Whitney's Fin-de-Siecle College Albums

Kris Belden-Adams

6. A Scissored Gay Life of the 1930s and 1940s: The Scrapbooks of Ogden Salmon

James Kaser

7. In Plain Sight: Album-Making and Queer Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century South Africa

Danielle Kinsey

Retelling National and International Histories

8. 'We Carry the Weight of a 150-Year Legacy': Sharing the Memories of a U.S. Civil War Photograph Album

Michele Gates Moresi

9. The Politics of Floating: Space and Experience in G. Prat photograph album of China and Japan, 1874-1900

Xinyue Yuan

10. Collecting the Indian Congress: Reframing Indigenous Photography Albums from the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition

Karen Barber

11. Secrets from the Family Album: Official and Silenced Knowledge on Migration

Ya'ara Gil-Glazer

Conclusions

12. Conclusions: Albums and Diverse Communities

Kris Belden-Adams

Afterword

Margaret Vendryes