6" x 7 1/2" faux leather album containing 50 photographs (mostly silver gelatin as well as two cyanotypes), most measuring approximately 3 1/2" x 5 1/2," and all being glued to album pages which has caused some to become a bit wavy. Six of the photographs are captioned. The album is identified as the ?Property of Fred J Hildebrand," hand-written on the inside of front cover. The photographs document an Ohio farm family?s life and includes images of African-American roustabouts erecting tents for a Barnum & Bailey Circus as well as images of Harry Atwood?s hydroplane rides over Lake Erie. Public records show Hildebrandt as living in northwest Ohio in the vicinity of Toledo, and his photographs provide a vivid view of early 20th century Midwestern farm life. Images include farmhouses, barns, horse-drawn wagons and buggies, Auglaiz Power Dam, automobiles, steam tractors, cattle, ducks, horses, chicken feeding, cutting wood with a large crosscut saw, cornfields, gardens, a woodpile, family