The Parnassus Album
True Photos of Imagined Lives

Most of these lost family pictures were uncovered at fairs and barns and antiques malls across the Midwest, mostly in southeastern Michigan near where I lived at the time. As this quirky little collection grew, it began to typify the lost albums from which it evolved. These pictures might have been kept by a single family, over four or five decades, in one American town -- in my mind, a town called Parnassus.

As I assembled the Parnassus album, I began making up stories. Living with them, studying their images, nearly a hundred lost people came alive to me. To their photos I added bits of this fiction, and, if I knew them, used their real names. This site contains portions of that collection. [read more]

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HOWARD R. DUNHAM, 1912-1980
Papers, 1930-1935

During the summer of 1932, Howard Dunham toured the United States with fellow members of the Milwaukee State Teachers College singing group. The group left from Milwaukee on June 18, stopping in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Idaho, before arriving at their northernmost stop in Bellingham, Washington on June 30.

From there, the group traveled south through Oregon and California, then journeyed northeast through Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois. They arrived home on July 21. Along their route, the group sang at various state teacher colleges. [read more]

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