Walter Schuster Collection

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

Walter's photography captured both the spectacular and the mundane.  The photography of common events and vernacular landscapes is particularly valuable both for historians and geographers because those scenes often went unrecorded by tourists and professional photographers. 

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

Together they expertly documented many locations, cultures and customs around the world, as well as 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.