11 1/2 x 9 in. album containing approx. 57 CDVs and cabinet cards. Front free end paper inscribed, "Presented to Mrs. J.E. McDonough, By her loving Husband 'Jack,' October 1883." Photographers / publishers include Gilbert Bacon, Philadelphia; C.M. Gilbert, Philadelphia; C.D. Fredricks, New York; Napoleon Sarony, New York; W & D Downey, England; Mora, New York; Entrekin, Philadelphia; George Rau, Philadelphia; Notman & Sons, Toronto; Warren's Portraits, Boston; C.M. Bell, Washington, DC.

Highlighted subjects include: Sarah Bernhardt, George Allison, Queen Victoria, Alexandra of Denmark, Robert Lambs, Fanny Davenport, Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Clara Rousby, Minnie Palmer, Mario, Lotta Crabtree, The Webb Sisters, William Warren, Kate Claxton, Frank Mayo, Jeffreys Lewis, the (alleged) death mask of Shakespeare and others.