Walter Schuster Collection

Walter and Sylvia Schuster traveled much of the world in the 1970 and 1980s.  

Walter's photography caught many of the more exciting and many of the more mundane scenes during their travels.  The photography of common events and vernacular landscapes is particularly exciting. 

Sylvia took extensive notes and amassed a splendid collection of travel ephemera - itself a valuable accounting of where and when and how they got about.  Among the artifacts are things like dining car menus from train trips, propaganda brochures from the USSR, and a collection of postcards.

Together they expertly documented many locations, cultures and customs around the world, and the curiosities of mid-to-late 19th century travel.  

Academics and the general public will find these collections of interest.

The American Landscape Project thanks Walter and Sylvia's daughter Linda Mazur for the generous donation of the family archives, and we earnestly hope to share it with a wide audience.