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Mental Photographs: An Album for Confessions of Tastes, Habits, and Convictions. 4to, gilt-lettered cloth, worn, hinges starting, foxing on preliminaries, with handwritten notations on many leaves. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1887 (MENTAL PHOTOGRAPHS) A WONDERFUL BIT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC AMERICANA. "Each leaf of this album has a space where a carte-de-visite sized photograph could be mounted and additional spaces where people could write in their responses to a series of questions regarding their likes and dislikes. The purpose of the book is, as the preface states,"to serve as a record for the tastes and characteristics of friends, in short, for their mental photographs, just as another class of albums serves to keep their physical ones."".