15 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. modern scrapbook identified to the Carter Family, including Mary Frances and Clenton Elgan Carter, originally from Illinois, containing over 250 silver gelatin photographs ranging in size from 2 x 2 1/2 in. to 8 x 10 in., as well as programs, pamphlets, memorial cards, and other ephemera saved by a family member. The photographs and related ephemera are mounted recto/verso to thin cardstock inserts. The scrapbook documents multiple generations of the Carter family, and contains a combination of personal family photographs, both formal portraits and informal snapshots, including wedding photographs, images taken for school or sporting events, and photographs with military subject matter, with some subjects identified on the album insert or an accompanying note. Several photographs are identified to Clenton Elgan Carter, including approx. 15 images that document his time in the military, ca 1940s-1950s. A Brize-Norton Air Force Base certificate enclosed with the album indicates that Clenton E. Carter served as a sergeant and completed the course of instruction for Non-Commissioned Officers in December 1954, and at least 4 photographs document a formal event at the Brize-Norton Air Force Base showing Sergeant Carter and fellow officers. Several photographs show Carter and his family in England, including an image taken at the Royal Air Force Station in Staffordshire. Carter's ID card as "Captain of Port, Chicago, 9th Naval Dist." is also enclosed.

Additional images of note include: Photograph of an African American man and two teen-aged girls standing in a shoe store accompanied by caption, "I think this is a shoe store our family ran in Texas." -- Several family snapshots, including a group of images of Clenton Carter's son Duane getting ready to go camping with his Boy Scout troop in Idlewild, CA. -- Photograph of jazz and pop singer Billy Eckstine, which may be signed.

Together, a scrapbook containing more than 250 photographs and ephemera. Condition generally good.