September Eleventh, 1926 [souvenir photo album depicting the golf tournament at the Youngstown, Ohio Country Club celebrating the 72nd birthday of noted Ohio industrialist James A. Campbell].

[Youngstown, OH: n.p., 1926]. Oblong folio. 17 x 9.5 in. [13 leaves (unnumbered).], on thick gray-green textured boards, all mounted on linen hinges at gutter margin, with 35 tipped-in silver gelatin photographs sized from 4.5 x 9.5 in. up to 6.75 x 14 in. Full green morocco, gilt lettering stamped on front cover, decorative Italian patterned endpapers (minor scuffing & wear to fore-edges, very light sunning to front cover), still a VG exemplar. This excellent souvenir photo album depicts the golf tourney hosted by the Youngstown Country Club in honor of Campbell’s (1854-1933) 72nd birthday in 1926. The opening photo depicts all the participants and dignitaries at the Country Club, followed by images of players on the greens. The 18-hole course was built on the 131-acre Holland Farm, and designed by Walter Travis, featuring a $ 60,000 Clubhouse, which was noted for elegance and model comfort. These images depict the quintessential 1920’s golfing excursion, including those of players, the greens, the roughs, caddies, and even an image of what appears to be Walter Travis himself taking a turn on the links. The year before in 1925, the Youngstown Country Club had hosted the 25th Open Championship of the Western Golf Assoc., and legends of the game including Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, and Tommy Armour III all played the course. Campbell was an enthusiastic golfer until his death, holding a similar tourney in 1929 on his 75th birthday. He had begun his business career by forming the Youngstown Ice Co. in the summer of 1884, and by 1890 was hired as manager of the Trumbull Iron Co. later consolidated into Union Iron & Steel Co. In 1901 he founded Youngstown Steel and Tube Co., but after a failed merger at the beginning of the Great Depression, his health declined. See: Ted Heineman, James A. Campbell, Riverside Cemetery Journal (2009); History & Golf Outings, Youngstown Country Club (2021); James A. Campbell’s 75th Birthday Celebration, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Audiovisual Archives, YHC MSS 0140, Box 10, Folder 186,