This was the time photograph albums came into vogue

This was the time photograph albums came into vogue.
They were most at home in the chilliest

spots, on occasional tables or little stands in the drawing room leather

bound tomes with repellent metal hasps and those gilt-edged pages as thick

as your finger, where foolishly draped or corseted figures were displayed

Uncle Alex and Aunt Riekchen, little Trudi when she was still a baby, Papa

in his first term at university