Publicity album for Harold C. Harvey of the Homasote Company of New Jersey, manufacturers of wall board, containing 96 cloth-backed photographs, mostly captioned and many architectural, with a few signed on the plate 'Rand '29'.

96 black and white photographic prints, each cloth-backed and with the landscape dimensions 20 x 25 cm. In black leather loose leaf album by Wilson Jones Co., Kansas City. Stamped in gilt in bottom right-hand corner of first leaf, 'HAROLD C. HARVEY'. The prints are in good condition, curling a little at the fore-edge, and with slight creasing at right-hand margin of the first two. The binding is somewhat worn, but still tight, with the three original metal screws holding the album together. Most of the photographs have typed captions on their cloth reverses, the first reading: 'NARRAGANSETT PIER, R. I. - PHOTO SHOWS: A view of the entrance and shore side of the Dunes Club here. Approximately 60,000 sq. ft. Homasote "A" on interior sidewalls and ceilings.' The caption helps date the album to around 1929, when the Dunes Club, designed by New York architect Kenneth M. Murchison, was completed. It was destroyed by a hurricane in 1938. (Another caption supports this date: 'Garden Theater Association, St. Louis, Missouri, over 5,000 of HOMASOTE "A" used for stages and backgrounds in the year 1929.' The next three images in the album also relate to Narragansett Pier, with the second showing 'The Morning Room, or Card Room, of the new Dunes club. Sidewalls and ceilings of Homasote "A".' Other subjects include: Mrs Charles Boddy's residence, West Hampton Beach, Long Island; 'HOMASOTE model house exhibit at better home exhibition, New York City'; Casino at Sands Point, Long Island; Tide Mill River Tavern, east of Bridgeport, Connecticut; Lutheran Church of the Reformation, Rochester, New York; Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, New York; 'Model summer shelter with HOMASOTE roof panels at Poultry Show, Springfield, Massachusetts'; school building, Trenton, New Jersey; cow barn, Longwater Farm, North Easton, Massachussetts; factory storage shed, Trenton, New Jersey; private home, Southampton, Long Island. There are also a number of phtographs of signage, including 'Photographs of Roadside signs which are used exclusively by the Highway Commission, state of Rhode Island on HOMASOTE roadway signs' and 'Single sheet 6 x 12' HOMASOTE outdoor sign made by the Highway Bulletin System, Penna'. Another group of photographs show men working with the firm's products, for example: 'THERMASOTE INSULATING PANELS being applied on interior of one of the houses in the Byrd Antarctic Expedition.' The final photographs in the album include objects made out of the firm's products, and machinery.