This album was presumably purchased by Berta Palmer on her 1934 trip to Germany, on the Albert Ballin, with her first son Alfred, then a toddler. The Albert Ballin was named after the managing director of the Hamburg- America Line, the largest merchant fleet in the world prior to WW I, carrying many Germans to a new life in the US.
1919 -- 1934 The EarlyYears
of Berta and Christian Palmer:
Aftermath of WW I, Emigration,
Marriage, Starting a Family in the Bronx
1934 Berta's Trip Back to Geradstettn with her son Alfred
1935 -- 1940 The Family Expands
in the Years Leading to WW II,
Life in Maspeth and Ridgewood
1940 -- 1948 The War Years, A Move to Forest Hills, Boys Gowing Up
1949 -- 1950 Berta's Second
Trip Back to Geradstetten, Boy Scouts,
and a High School Graduate
1953 -- 1954 Christian Takes
his First Trip back to Geradstetten
since the 1920s, another High School
Graduate, and a Soldier to Boot
1955 -- 1965 U.S. Navy Returns
William to his Roots in Geradstetten,
and the Era of Collecting Black and
White Photos for the Albert Ballin Album Ends