Author: BRAZIL - SOUVENIR ALBUM - MRS. & MR. GERALD FORD,
Title: Souvenir from Brazil. November, 1956.
Description: S.L.[Brazil, 1956]. large oblong 8°. thin pictorial coloured & lettered boards with protective plastic dustjacket, being a beautiful border watercolour in a very expertise hand, painted by LAERTE. (his name in lower right corner calligraphed on upper cover). Title calligraphed with decorative initials in centre of upper boards also by Laerte. Souvenir-album cont. tog. 15 orig. photographs mounded on 3 stiff leaves, each with hand-lettered key, in an excellent hand, (with names & silhouettes of persons appearing on photos) on tissue-guards. Souvenir-Album depict. a visit of a U.S. delegation to Brazil in 1956. Among the names we find a.o. Mr. and Mrs. GERALD FORD (former U.S. President)(appearing on a number of photographs), A.D. Bonham Carter, Mrs. R.L. Martensen, J.M.F. Edange, Mrs. W.G.A. Cochrane, Robert Guy Rodwell, Alfonso Vibonatti Jr., B.S. Swift, Johann Greiner, Manoel Viera, Mr. & Mrs. J.A.S. Barton, Cornelis Van Bellen, O.A. Ziliotto, A. Peres, Mrs. M.L. Rodriguez, L. Rocco, F.Pinto Ferreira Filho, &c..the Album does not reveal the purpose of this visit to Brazil. A beautiful & very well preserved ephemeric piece!

Keywords: brazil/ephemera