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Oblong Small Folio album ca. 25x31,5 cm (9 ¾ x 12 ¼ in). 47 card stock leaves (3 blank). With ca. 320 mounted (in corners or pasted on) gelatin silver photos, from ca. 11x13,5 cm (4 ¼ x 5 ¼ in) to ca. 6x9,5 cm (2 ¼ x 3 ¾ in). Over twenty photos with period ink manuscript captions on the lower margins. About ten photos of oil drilling in Texas and Louisiana with period ink, pencil or typewritten captions on verso; several photos are with the ink stamps of “Fox Tone Picture, San Antonio, Texas” (some are also with ink dates “Sep. 1929”) on verso. Period style black pebbled cloth album. Lower right corners of the mounts with minor tears and losses, a few photos with minor creases, silvering or mildly faded, but overall a very good album of interesting strong photos.Historically significant…
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[Abercrombie, James Smither] (1891-1975), and others. Album with ca. 320 Original Gelatin Photographs, Documenting Oil Exploration and Drilling by the “James S. Abercrombie Company” in Columbia in 1925-1927, and Texas and Louisiana in 1929. Ca. 1925-1927, 1929.
by [Abercrombie, James Smither] (1891-1975)
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Adkison, Lewis D. (1816-1903). Original Autograph Letter Signed by the Owner of the General Store in Oak Valley Lewis D. Adkison, Addressed to George R. Bearss from his Hometown of Peru (IN), Talking about the Latest News from the Oak Valley, His Sympathies to the Republican Party, and the Results of the California General Election and the US Presidential Election of 1856. Oak Valley [Yuba Co.]: 14 November 1856.
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Quarto (ca. 24,5x19,5 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on bluish laid paper. Fold marks, but overall a very good letter, written in a legible hand.Historically interesting original letter, containing an early reference to the Republicans in California. The author, Lewis D. Adkison, originally from Peru (Miami Co., IN), spent over twelve years in the Yuba county, at first running a general store in Oak Valley and later serving as a county sheriff. In the letter to George R. Bearss (1834 – ca. 1860), a son of his former employer from Peru (IN) Daniel Robert Bearss (1809-1884), Adkison conveys the latest news from the Oak Valley and discusses California politics. He talks about the elections to the California State Senate (which took place just a week earlier, on November 4, 1856), the loss of Democrat candidates, including a former representative of the Yuba County Dr.…
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Admiral M.P. Lazarev. Steel Engraved Portrait. London, ca. 1840s.
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Steel engraving, print size 39x34,5 cm on a large sheet 65,5x48,5 cm. “B.R. Davies direxit., J. Thomson sculpt.” underneath the image. With an engraved title in Russian and Lazarev’s coat of arms engraved on the lower margin. Blank margins with minor repaired tears, creases on the upper and lower blank margins not affecting the images, overall a very good print.Official portrait of Admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev (1788-1851), Russian naval officer, circumnavigator, and the discoverer of Antarctica. The print engraved in England on the special order of the Russian Naval Ministry shows Lazarev in his late years, as the Chief of Staff of the Black Sea Fleet (since 1832); the Admiral is depicted waist length, dressed in uniform with all his regalia and holding a spyglass under his left arm. His name under the portrait is adorned with the coat of…
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Album of Thirty Very Attractive Original Watercolour Views of the Holy Land; Including: Two Watercolours from the Same Travel Showing Surghaya village in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains (Syria) and the Acropolis in Smyrna/Izmir (Turkey). March-May 1893.
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Thirty original watercolours on paper, from ca. 8,5x17,5 cm (3 ¼ x 7 in) to ca. 8,5x12,5 cm (3 ¼ x 4 ¾ in), mounted within ink-drawn frames on the original white, greyish and greenish album leaves ca. 21x27,5 cm (8 ¼ x 11 in). All but one captioned and dated in period ink on the mounts. Period style brown half morocco album with gilt tooled spine and pebbled cloth boards, Several leaves with minor stains on the lower right blank corners of the mounts, not affecting the watercolours, otherwise a very good album of bright attractive watercolours.Attractive album of bright watercolour views drawn by a British traveller to the Holy Land in the spring of 1893. Dated between March 4th – April 27th, 1893, the watercolours include two views of Jaffa (city waterfront and the house of Simon the Tanner where St. Peter stayed during his…
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Album of Over 280 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken by an American Soldier During His Service in the US Army Hawaiian Division, with Interesting Photos of Schofield Barracks and Soldiers, Oahu Island and Hawaii Volcanos National Park. Hawaii: Ca. 1920-1930s.
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Oblong Folio (ca. 26x33 cm). 45 black stock leaves. With over 280 mounted original gelatin silver photographs from ca. 11x16 cm (4 ¾ x 6 ½ in) to ca. 5,5x8 cm (2 ¼ x 3 ¼ in). Several photos captioned in negative, ca. thirty with period ink captions on verso. Many photos bear ink stamp “Chateau Sauty’s Studio Print De Luxe, Hawaiian Islands” on verso. With eight mounted real photo postcards ca. 8,5x13,5 cm (3 ½ x 5 ¼ in). With eleven mounted colour printed postcards with Hawaiian views. With four negatives of family photos ca. 6x9 cm (2 ¼ x 3 ¾ in) loosely inserted. Period brown faux leather album fastened with string. Binding rubbed on extremities, a few images mildly faded, several photos possibly previously removed, but overall a very good album of interesting photos.Interesting private…
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Album of Nine Attractive Original Watercolour Views of Egypt and the River Nile. December 1892 - February 1893.
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Nine original watercolours on paper, from ca. 12,5x17,5 cm (5 x 6 ¾ in) to ca. 6,5x12,5 cm (2 ½ x 5 in), mounted within ink-drawn frames on the original white album leaves ca. 21x27,5 cm (8 ¼ x 11 in). All watercolours captioned and dated in period ink on the mounts. Period style dark green morocco album with a gilt tooled spine and cloth boards. Several leaves with minor stains on the lower blank right corners of the mounts, not affecting the watercolours, otherwise a very good collection.An attractive album of bright watercolour views drawn by a British traveller during his Nile cruise in the winter of 1892-1893. Dated between December 1892 and February 25th 1893, the watercolours show Assouan (Aswan), Cairo, Girgeh (Girga), the ancient Thebes, the Great Pyramids of Giza, and the pyramids of Meidum and Saqqara. Overall a beautiful…
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Album of Twenty-six Original Albumen Photographs of Nikko, Japan. Ca. 1890.
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Oblong Folio (ca. 28x38 cm). 26 leaves. 26 large albumen photographs ca. 20,5x26 cm (8 x 10 ¼ in) mounted on 26 stiff cardboard leaves. All photographs numbered and captioned in negative, 15 photographs with custom made labels with type written text. Period brown gilt lettered half morocco with cloth boards neatly rebacked and re-cornered in style with new endpapers. A few photos mildly faded, but overall a very good album with interesting photosThe album includes early large photographs of the main sites of Nikko, a mountainous resort approximately 140 km north of Tokyo, which became especially popular among foreign visitors in the end of the 19th century. The photographs show Hatsuishi Street (numbered 1197), the Sacred Bridge (748) leading to the Futarasan Shrine, Manganji Garden (1129 and 1132), and a large group of views of the Tosho-gu Shrine. The…
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Album with 106 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Documenting an Early Travel up the Congo and Ubangi Rivers to Fort Crampel in French Congo (now Kaga-Bandoro, Central African Republic) and Showing Boma, Matadi, Bangui, Ibenga Village, Ubangi, Nana and Chari Rivers, Fort Crampel, French Fortifications, a Hotchkiss Gun, Bush Camps during the Suppression of Local Tribes, Village Scenes, Portraits of Bondjo (Ekonda), M’Bres, M’Gaos and Ouham People, Members of Native Militia, a Doctor Pulling a Teeth, a Local Chief, &c. Ca. 1900s-1910s.
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Oblong Folio album ca. 24,5x31,5 cm (9 ½ x 12 ¼ in). 25 card stock leaves (11 blank). With 106 mounted gelatin silver photos, all ca. 8x9,5 cm (3 x 3 ¾ in). All photos with period brown ink manuscript captions in French on the mounts; several images are numbered in negative. Period black half morocco with green pebbled cloth boards; moire endpapers. Corners mildly bumped, mounts slightly waved, a few photos mildly faded, but overall a very good album of rare interesting strong photos.Historically significant rare collection of early original photos of Fort Crampel and environs - modern-day Kaga-Bandoro, the capital of Nana-Grebizi prefecture in northern Central African Republic. The fort was founded by a French colonial administrator Emile Gentil in 1897 and became a major point on the supply route from Brazzaville to Fort Lamy (N’Djamena,…
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Album with Fifty-Six Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of British and German East Africa, Including Views of Nairobi, Kisumu, Mombasa, Kampala, Tanga, Magila, Ripon Falls, Lake Victoria, Kabaka Lake, Portraits of Kikuyu, Kavirondo, Kamba People, &c. Ca. 1907.
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Large Oblong Folio album ca. 26x33,5 cm (10 ¼ x 13 in). 13 stiff card album leaves. 56 mounted gelatin silver photos including fifteen large images ca. 15x21 cm (5 x 8 ½ in) and eight photos ca. 10,5x15 cm (4x6 in); the rest are ca. 6,5x10 cm (2 ½ x 4 in) and slightly smaller. All but ten photos with period manuscript ink or pencil captions on the mounts. Period dark brown quarter sheep with brown pebbled cloth boards; spine with gilt-tooled decorations; moiré endpapers. Overall a very good album with interesting strong photos.This album contains photographs of local people and colonial establishments in British East Africa (present-day Kenya), Uganda (protectorate established in 1896) and German East Africa (present-day Tanzania). A large portion of the photographs are taken along the Uganda Railway from Mombasa, where the Railway began…
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Album with 36 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken and Collected by an Associate of the “Assam Oil Company” and Showing the Company Settlement with Bungalows, Oil Reservoirs and Railway Tracks, Construction of Oil Derricks, Arriving Train (apparently, of the Assam Railway & Trading Co.), Company’s Associates, Native People of Assam, Working Elephants, &c. Ca. 1900s.
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Oblong Quarto album ca. 19x25,5 cm (7 ½ x 10 in). 14 card stock leaves. With 36 mounted gelatin silver photos of various size, including six large images from ca. 15x20 cm (6x8 in); the rest of the photos are from ca. 12x16 cm (4 ¾ x 6 ½ in) to ca. 8x10,5 cm (3 ¼ x 4 in). Two photos with period pencil or ink captions on the mounts. With nine mounted period magazine or newspaper clippings, each ca. 7x9,5 cm (2 ¾ x 3 ¾ in). Original black half morocco with cloth boards, neatly rebacked in style with black morocco; original endpapers. A few photos mildly faded or with mild silvering, but overall a very good album of interesting photographs.Historically significant album with early original photos of the properties and operations of the “Assam Oil Company” near Digboi, north-eastern Assam, known as the…
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Album with 66 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and Cyanotypes of Utah, Showing Salt Lake City (South Temple Street, Downtown, LDS Business College, Tabernacle), Mining Industrial Facilities, Surveyors, Native Americans, Homesteaders, &c. Ca. 1900s.
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Oblong Quarto (ca. 18,5x27,5 cm or 7 ¼ x 10 ¾ in). 21 black card stock leaves. With 66 original photographs (several images in two copies), including 63 mounted gelatin silver photos, from ca. 10x12 cm (3 ¾ x 4 ¾ in) to ca. 5,5x8 cm (2 ¼ x 3 ¼ in) and three mounted cyanotypes from ca. 8x13,5 cm (3 x 5 ¼ in) to ca. 6,5x8 cm (2 ½ x 3 in). No captions. Period black full cloth album; paper label of “The Heinn Co., Milwaukee, Wis.” on the inner side of the rear cover. Mounts slightly waved, three images previously removed from the album, a few photos very mildly faded or with mild silvering, otherwise a very good album of rare interesting photos.Interesting collection of early original photos of Utah, showing Salt Lake City and mining activities in its environs, most likely near Garfield. A…
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Album with 207 Original Gelatin Silver Vernacular Photographs, Taken during an Early Car Trip from Los Angeles to Mexico and Back in July-August 1938, Titled: Six Weeks in Mexico. Ca. 1938.
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Folio album (ca. 37,5x31,5 cm or 4 ¾ x 12 ¼ in). 30 card stock leaves. With 207 mounted original gelatin silver photos, from ca. 7x8,5 cm (2 ¾ x 3 ½ in) to ca. 3,5x5 cm (1 1 x 4 in); most photos are ca. 6x8,5 cm (2 ½ x 3 ½ in). All leaves with period manuscript ink captions, related to all photos on the leaf or individual images; first leaf with a manuscript ink title. With 47 paper leaves from ca. 23x21,5 cm (9 x 8 ¼ in) to ca. 10x21,5 cm (4 x 8 ½ in), mounted on verso of the album leaves, with typewritten notes about the trip. With a period printed tourist map of Mexico, mounted at the rear, with hand-drawn routes of the trip. Period beige soft cover full cloth album fastened with a string; red decorative faux leather arrows on the front board. The manufacturer’s paper label is on the…
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Album with over 99 Original Gelatin Photographs, Taken during a Caribbean Cruise Showing Cuba (Havana), Columbia (Barranquilla, Cartagena), Panama (Colon, Panama Canal, Balboa, Old Panama City), El Salvador (Santa Tecla), Guatemala (San Jose, Palin, Antigua Guatemala, Mount Agua), Mexico (Mazatlan, Agua Caliente Casino and Hotel). Ca. 1934.
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Quarto album ca. 25,5x21 cm (10 x 8 ¼ in). 25 card stock leaves. With 99 gelatin silver photos mounted in windows, all ca. 8,5x14,5 cm (3 ¼ x 5 ¾ in). All photos with period white ink manuscript captions on the mounts (several captions relate to two photos). First leaf with a period white ink manuscript date “March 1st, 1934.”. Period black full cloth album, fastened with a string; front board with a gilt-lettered generic title “Photographs.” Paper label “Housh Supreme Quality Album, The Housh Co., Boston” mounted on the inner side of the rear board. One photo was possibly previously removed, several images slightly faded, but overall a very good album of interesting strong photos.Attractive collection of original postcard sized vernacular photographs, taken during a 1934 voyage from New York to the west coast…
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Album with 112 Gelatin Silver Photos Documenting the Construction of Port Facilities at Rio Grande and Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Ca. 1910s.
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Oblong Octavo album (ca. 14x20,5 cm). 50 card stock leaves. With 108 mounted gelatin silver photographs from ca. 12,5x17,5 cm (4 ¾ x 6 ¾ in) to ca. 5x8,5 cm (2 x 3 ¼ in). Over thirty photos with period pencil captions in French on the mounts. Period red full cloth album, neatly repaired on the hinges. A few images mildly faded, several mounts slightly soiled or with the residue of photos being detached and repositioned, but overall a very good album.Rare extensive collection of original photographs illustrating the large-scale construction of port facilities in the Patos Lagoon/Lagoa dos Patos (Brazilian province of Rio Grande do Sul) in the early 20th century. The first leaf bears a period pencil inscription in French “Porto Alegre, Brésil,” but it looks like most photos document the construction of Porto Novo in Rio Grande,…
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Album with 65 Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Studio Photographs of Italy and Including some of France, Germany, and Monaco. Ca. 1890s - early 1900s.
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Oblong Folio album (ca. 28,5x37,5 cm). 30 card stock leaves (2 blank). With 65 mounted photographs (63 albumen and 2 gelatin silver prints). Fifty photos are large, ca. 21x27,5 cm (8 ¼ x 11 in) or slightly smaller. There is also a three-part panorama ca. 8,5x34 cm (3 ¼ x 13 ¼ in); the rest of the photos are from ca. 12x18 cm (4 ¾ x 7 in) to ca. 5x8 cm (2x3 in). A dozen photos captioned and/or signed, and/or numbered in negative; over fifty photos with period pencil captions in English on the mounts. Period black half morocco album with green pebbled cloth boards. Several images mildly faded, mild foxing on the mounts, one image with a tear on the lower corner neatly repaired, but overall a very good album of interesting photos.Attractive collection of large albumen views of Italy (43), France (15), Germany (4), and Monte Carlo…
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Album with 33 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Photographs, Taken and Collected by an Officer of HMS Niobe during the Second Boer War and Showing the Defence Installations in Walvis Bay (Fort Niobe, Cuddy Cop, Fort Stocker), Artillery and Maxim Guns, Cape Garrison Artillery Camp in Walvis Bay, HMS Niobe, Its Officers and Crew, Boer Prisoners and Their Tent Camp on Saint Helena, Imprisoned Boer General Piet Cronje, Governor of Walvis Bay, et al.; with Two Ink-Drawn “Plan of Settlement Shewing Fortifications and Defences Forming Fort Niobe, Erected by Naval Brigade from HMS “Niobe” for Defence of Settlement from Boer Raids, Feb. 10th-14th 1900;” and “Plan of the Boer Enclosure and Deadwood Camp, St. Helena, 1900”. Ca. 1900-1901.
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Oblong Small Folio album ca. 24,5x31 cm (9 ½ x 12 ¼ in). 30 card stock leaves (3 blank). With 33 original photographs (mostly mounted, three loosely inserted), including 29 gelatin silver photos and four albumen. The gelatin silver photos include three large photos, from ca. 21x27,5 cm (8 ¼ x 10 ¾ in) to ca. 14x20 cm (5 ½ x 8 in); the rest of the photos are from ca. 10,5x15 cm (4 ¼ x 5 ¾ in) to ca. 5,5x8 cm (2 ¼ x 3 in). With four large albumen studio photos of Corfu, each ca. 20,5x27 cm (8 x 10 ½ in). All mounted photos with period ink manuscript captions on the mounts, many also with ink dates on the mounts. Two leaves with the compiler’s extensive manuscript notes on verso. With two mounted ink-drawn plans, ca. 18,5x20,5 cm (7 ¼ x 8 in) and 17,5x24 cm (6 ¾ x 9…
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Album with 96 Original Gelatin Silver Photos from Big Game Hunting Trips in the Nilgiri Mountains, Kanara Jungle and Valleys of Godavari and Wardha Rivers in the Central and Southern India. Ca. 1921-1926.
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Oblong Folio album (ca. 24x35 cm). 12 card stock leaves. With 96 mounted gelatin silver photographs (mostly printed as real photo postcards), all ca. 8,5x13,5 cm (3 ¼ x 5 ¼ in). All but ten photos with period white ink captions on the mounts. With a large loosely inserted gelatin silver photo ca. 20x30 cm (7 ¾ x 11 ¾ in). Period black cloth album with a gilt-tooled vignette “The Photo Gallery” on the front board. Captions slightly faded, one photo has been previously removed from the album, but overall a very good album with interesting strong images.Attractive collection of well-preserved vivid photographs of British colonial residents going on big game hunting trips in central and southern India in the 1920s. The images illustrate a 1921 hunting trip to the Nilgiri Mountains (the areas near Ooty, Avalanche Lake and…
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Album with 229 Original Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photographs, Showing Nome (Sheldon Hotel, St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Front Street, Golden Gate Hotel, &c.), Dutch Harbor (Facilities of the “North American Commercial Co.,” Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Ascension, Iliuliuk Bay), Likely Kotzebue Sound, Gold Miners Panning, Dredging and Digging, Canoeing, Dog Sledding, Posing next to Their Tents, on Board a Steamship, Native Alaskans, “Wisconsin” Gold Dredge, &c. Ca. 1898-1903.
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Oblong Folio album (ca. 27x34 cm or 10 ½ x 13 ¼ in). 44 brown paper leaves (20 blank). With 229 original gelatin silver photos (mostly mounted, one loosely inserted), including 39 larger images from ca. 8x13,5 cm (3 x 5 ¼ in) to ca. 7x13 cm (1 2 ¾ x 5 in); the rest of the images are ca. 5,5x8,5 cm (2 ¼ x 3 ¼ in). Several photos with visible period pencil captions on verso. With pencil notes on the albums leaves not related to the photos, partly concealed by the mounted photos. With five loose leaves of lined paper (ca. 20x12,5 cm or 8x5 in) with period ink captions, possibly related to some of the photos. Period brown quarter canvas album with grey papered boards. Binding rubbed and with chipping on extremities, spine with a tear on the bottom, some photos mildly faded, one mount with a tear not affecting the…
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Album with 182 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing Lima, Peru, American Associates of a Lima Company, Possibly of the “Grace & Co.” Steamship Company, and the Panama Canal. Ca. 1920.
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Oblong Quarto (ca. 21x29 cm). 20 card stock leaves (2 blank). With 182 mounted original gelatin silver photographs, including 119 larger photos ca. 7,5x9,5 cm (3 x 3 ¼ in), the rest are ca. 4x5,5 cm (1 ½ x 2 in). All but three photos are captioned and/or dated in ink on the margins. Period black faux leather covers fastened with a string, gilt lettered title “Photographs” on the front cover. One photo with the right lower corner torn off, two small photos removed from the album by previous owners, but overall a very good album with interesting photos.Interesting collection of lively original snapshot photos taken by an American traveller to Peru, who left New York in March 1920 and went to Lima on board the“Santa Luisa” steamship via the Panama Canal; he stayed in Lima for about two months, returning to New York on the…
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Album with 196 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Ghana (Accra, Aburi) and Eritrea (Asmara, Massawa, Cheren) Taken by a U.S. Air Force Serviceman in the Last Years of WWII, with Interesting Photos Including a “Witch Doctor Scaring away Evil Spirits After a Death of a Native,” G. I.’s Sharing Cigarettes with the Crowd of Locals, Native Women Shopping in their Traditional Attire, Soldiers “Getting Shoes Shined” by the Local Children & Holding Burst Shells on the Cheren Battlefield, etc.; also with the Photos of Military Installations, the Church of Our Lady of Rosary, the Asmara Cinema, Red Cross & Grand Hotels, etc. Ca. 1940s.
by Album with 196 Photos of Ghana and Eritrea Taken by a U.S. Army Air Force Serviceman in the Last Years of WWII
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Oblong Folio album (ca. 27,5x34,5 cm). 20 card stock leaves, all but one with tissue guards. With 195 mounted and one loosely inserted gelatin silver photographs, from ca. 8,5x13 cm (3 ½ x 5 in) to ca. 6x5 cm (2 ½ x 2 in). Most photos with period black ink manuscript captions on the mounts and verso. First leaf with a period manuscript title: “Accra 1943-1945.” Pictorial color embossed cover with Egyptian hieroglyphs and acenter-image of pyramids. Covers with mild wear, two tissue guards detached, a few photos with minor silvering, but overall a very good album with interesting strong photos.[With:] Eritrea. Handbook on Eritrea for Use of Visitors & Tourists. Published by British Ministry of Information. Eritrea: British Information Services, [Asmara?], [1944]. Ca. 24x16,5 cm (9 ½ x 6 ½ in). 36 pp.: ill., map. Original…
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