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Item #579 [Collection of 47 Large Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Photos of Myanmar, Showing...
Attractive Collection of Large Rare Early Photos of Myanmar
3[ASIA - MYANMAR]

[Collection of 47 Large Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Photos of Myanmar, Showing the Pagodas and Royal Palace in Mandalay, Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Amarapura, Myanaung, Bhamo, Irrawaddy River, “Khaung Kyaung” Monastery, Burmese Priests (Hponghees), Monks, Musicians and Dancers, Collectors of Palm Tree Sap, Participants of a Religious Ceremony and...

Ca. 1890s. Forty-seven original photos, mounted on 38 loose sheets of period card ca. 27,5x36 cm (10 ¾ x 14.....

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Item #582 [Album with 68 Large Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Photographs of Tonkin...
Large Early Photos of Tonkin
6[ASIA - VIETNAM - TONKIN] DIEULEFILS, Pierre-Marie (1862-1937), and others

[Album with 68 Large Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Photographs of Tonkin (Northern Vietnam), Showing Hanoi, Haiphong, Viet Tri, Lang Son and Song Ky Cung River, Lao Cai and the Red River (Song Hong), Do Son, Bat Bac, Bao Ha, My Tho, Black River (Song Da) near Cho Bo, and...

Ca. 1880s. Oblong small Folio album ca. 22,5x31 cm (8 ¾ x 12 ¼ in). 34 card stock leaves. With.....

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Item #588 [Album with 189 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars’...
Interesting Photos of the Northwest Frontier & India Including Large Aerial Views
7[ASIA - PAKISTAN & INDIA – NORTH WEST FRONTIER] [FAULKNER, Farr. G.J.?]

[Album with 189 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars’ Military Service on the North West Frontier, Showing Group Portraits of the Regiment’s Officers, Military Marches and Reviews, Cantonments, Khyber Pass, Landi Kotal, Peshawar, Lahore, Attock, Aerial Views of the Himalayas, Nowshera, Jamrud and Attock Forts, Taj Mahal...

Ca. 1920s-1930s. Oblong Folio album ca. 27,5x36,5 cm (10 ¾ x 14 ½ in). 24 black card stock leaves with.....

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Item #557 [Album with 36 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken and Collected by an Associate...
Rare Early Photos of the Assam Oil Industry
[ASIA - ASSAM - OIL]

[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...

Ca. 1900s. Oblong Quarto album ca. 19x25,5 cm (7 ½ x 10 in). 14 card stock leaves. With 36 mounted.....

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Item #260 [Collection of Twenty-Seven Loose Platinum and Albumen Photographs of Angkor Wat, Other...
Important Photos of Angkor Wat and Khmer Architecture Related to the Travels and Work of George Groslier
[ASIA - CAMBODIA]

[Collection of Twenty-Seven Loose Platinum and Albumen Photographs of Angkor Wat, Other Angkorian Temples and Khmer Sculptures, Taken by or Related to the Direction des Arts Cambodgiens Headed by George Groslier].

Ca. 1910s-1920s. Fifteen loose platinum prints ca. 17x23 cm (6 ½ x 9 in). Twelve albumen photographs, including eight ca.....

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Item #569 [Album with 74 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and Two Printed Postcards, Showing...
Historically Important Photos of the USS “Dale’s” Service in China During the Xinhai Revolution
[ASIA - CHINA – XINHAI REVOLUTION]

[Album with 74 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and Two Printed Postcards, Showing USS “Dale” and other Warships of the US Asiatic Fleet, Chinese Troops, Camps, Artillery Guns and Scenes of Destruction during the Xinhai Revolution, China Inland Mission Boys School in Chefoo (Yantai), Scenes of Forceful Removal of a Queue...

Ca. 1910s. Oblong Quarto album ca. 18x27 cm (7 x 10 ¾ in). 16 card stock leaves (plus over thirty.....

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Item #405 [Collection of Seventy-One Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken during the...
Historically Significant Photos of the 1930 International Himalaya Expedition to Kangchenjunga led by Günter Dyhrenfurth
[ASIA - HIMALAYA - KANGCHENJUNGA] HOERLIN, Herman (1903-1983), SCHNEIDER, Erwin (1906-1987); KURZ, Marcel (1887-1967); WIELAND, Uli (1902-1934); [DYHRENFURTH, Günter] (1886-1975)

[Collection of Seventy-One Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken during the 1930 International Himalaya Expedition to Kangchenjunga].

Ca. 1930. Seventy-one loose gelatin silver photographs, including eighteen larger photos from ca. 12,5x17,5 cm (4 ¾ x 6 ¾.....

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Item #376 [Album with Forty-Nine Large Albumen Photographs of British India and Ceylon]. ASIA -...
Vivid Large Albumen Studio Photos of British India & Ceylon
[ASIA - INDIA & SRI LANKA] BOURNE & SHEPHERD; BURKE, John (ca. 1843-1900); NICHOLAS & CO.; SCOWEN & CO.; SKEEN & CO.; PONT, V.&E., AND OTHERS

[Album with Forty-Nine Large Albumen Photographs of British India and Ceylon].

Ca. 1880s-1890s. Oblong Folio album (ca. 27,5x38 cm). 49 paper leaves. With 49 mounted albumen photographs, including 47 larger ones.....

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Item #560 [Two Albums with 192 Original Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs of British India,...
Interesting Photos of India and the Delhi Durbar in 1911
[ASIA - INDIA - 1911 DELHI DURBAR]

[Two Albums with 192 Original Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs of British India, Showing Nainital (General Views, Hotel Metropole, Naina Devi Temple, “Trevillion & Clark” Shop on the Mall Rd., Cricket Game), Events of the 1911 Delhi Durbar, Kolkata, Kanpur, Jabalpur, Portraits of “a Bridegroom Robed for Wedding,” “a Holy Man...

Ca. 1910s. Two Oblong Quarto albums, each ca. 23,5x28 cm (9 ¼ x 11 in). Each with 12 card stock.....

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Item #396 [Album with 96 Original Gelatin Silver Photos from Big Game Hunting Trips in the...
Vivid Photos of British Colonial Big Game Hunting Trips in Central and Southern India in the 1920s.
[ASIA - INDIA - BIG GAME HUNTING]

[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. Oblong Folio album (ca. 24x35 cm). 12 card stock leaves. With 96 mounted gelatin silver photographs (mostly printed.....

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Item #590 [PRESENTATION COPY: Album with 33 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Titled:]...
Rare Photos of the Japanese Silk Industry in the 1930s
[ASIA - JAPAN - SILK]

[PRESENTATION COPY: Album with 33 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Titled:] Phographs [Sic!] of Japan Raw Silk. 1937. Presented to Dr. Paul Monroe by the Central Raw Silk Association of Japan.

Ca. 1937. Oblong Folio album ca. 23,5x34 cm (9 ¼ x 13 ¼ in). 24 card stock leaves (6 blank.....

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Item #503 [Album with 87 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the New Mongolian State...
Historically Significant Early Photos of the First Mongolian Anti-Plague Laboratory in Ulaanbaatar
[ASIA - MONGOLIA – BACTERIOLOGY & VACCINES]

[Album with 87 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the New Mongolian State Sanitary-Bacteriological Institute in Ulanbataar, Showing its Laboratory, Clinic, Museum, the Anti-Plague Research Centre outside of Ulanbataar; also with Portraits of the Institute’s Head Abram Berlin, Russian and Mongolian Associates, Patients, Photos of Laboratory Animals and Procedures, Anti-Measles, Typhus...

Ca. 1933-1936. Oblong Quarto (ca. 26,5x32 cm). 17 card stock album leaves. With 84 mounted and three loosely inserted original.....

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Item #552 [Collection of Twenty-Four Gelatin Silver Contact Sheets with 272 Original Photos,...
Early Photos of the Khumbu Region of Nepal with Ethnographic Portraits of Sherpas
[ASIA - NEPAL - HIMALAYAS] STONOR, Charles Robert (1912-1982)

[Collection of Twenty-Four Gelatin Silver Contact Sheets with 272 Original Photos, Documenting the “Daily Mail Himalayan Expedition in search of the Yeti” in January-June, 1954 and Showing Namche Bazar, Those, Junbesi, Phortse, and Thame Villages, Local Sherpa People, Tengboche Monastery and Monks, a “Hermit and Cell above Dingboche,” a Man...

Photos: ca. 1954. Twenty-four gelatin silver contact sheets, each ca. 30x25 cm (ca. 12x10 in). Each sheet with nine to.....

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Item #404 [Collection of 189 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken during the 1934...
Historically Significant Photos of the 1934 “International Himalaya Expedition” Including a World Altitude Record for Women
[ASIA - PAKISTAN - KARAKORAM] DYHRENFURTH, Günter (1886-1975); DYHRENFURTH, Harriet Pauline “Hettie” (1892-1972); ANGST, Richard (1905-1984); ERTL, Hans (1908-2000); HÖCHT, Albert (1906-1992); BELAIEFF, James; GHIGLIONE, Piero; and others

[Collection of 189 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken during the 1934 “International Himalaya Expedition” to the Karakoram – the Upper Baltoro Glacier, and Sia Kangri (Queen Mary Peak) and Baltoro Kangri (the Golden Throne) Mountains].

Ca. 1934. 189 loose gelatin silver photographs, including thirteen large square photos from ca. 18,5x17 cm (7 ¼ x 6.....

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Item #558 [Album with 56 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing British Rubber and Tea...
Interesting Photos of Sri Lankan Rubber and Tea Plantations before WW1
[ASIA - SRI LANKA – RUBBER & TEA]

[Album with 56 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing British Rubber and Tea Plantations in the Kelani Valley, Sri Lanka, Including the Kiriporuwa Estate of the “Nagolle Rubber and Tea Plantations Ltd.” and Halpe Estate of the “Ceylon Rubber Co. Ltd.,” Their Managers, Native Workers, Rubber Harvesting Operations, &c.].

1913-1914. Oblong Quarto album ca. 19,5x25 cm (7 ¾ x 9 ¾ in). 12 card stock leaves (5 blank). With.....

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Item #400 [Collection of Three Photo Albums with ca. 416 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken by...
Extensive Photo Documentation of the Beginnings of the US Oil Industry in Sumatra in the early 1930s.
[ASIA - SUMATRA – STANDARD OIL CO.] [O’VARY, Geza Philip] (1887 – after 1946) & [O’VARY, Helene] (ca. 1883 – after 1958)

[Collection of Three Photo Albums with ca. 416 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken by an American Employee of the Nederlandsche Koloniale Petroleum Maatschappij (Nederlands Colonial Oil Company) During His Work at the Oil Refinery in Soengei-Gerong (Sungai Gerong, South Sumatra) in 1929-1931].

Ca. 1929-1931. Three albums with ca. 416 original gelatin silver photos. Oblong Folio album (ca. 27,5x36,5 cm). 25 card stock.....

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Item #572 [Album of Ninety-Six Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Documenting a Trip from...
Early & Large Rare Photos of Lesser-Travelled Areas of Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam
[ASIA - THAILAND, MYANMAR & VIETNAM] [LIPPENS, Paul] (1876-1915); KERCHOVE DE DENTERGHEM, Carl de (1878-1961)

[Album of Ninety-Six Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Documenting a Trip from Moulmein (Mawlamyine, Myanmar) to Bangkok and thence to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) in February-March 1902, Titled:] Siam & Cochinchine. 1902.

1902. Large Oblong Folio album ca. 32,5x46 cm (12 ¾ x 18 ¼ in). 55 stiff card album leaves. With.....

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Item #512 [Collection of Fifty-Five Mainly Ethnographic Original Gelatin Silver Photographs,...
Rare Early Ethnographic Photos of the Tibetan Plateau
[ASIA - TIBETAN PLATEAU] FORMAN, Harrison (1904-1978)

[Collection of Fifty-Five Mainly Ethnographic Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken During Forman's Expedition to Tibet and Inner Mongolia in 1932 and Showing Tibetan Lamas, Sorcerers, Warriors, Elders, a “Chief of Lama Police,” “Printing Block Carvers,” Women and Girls, Labrang Monastery, “Yak-Hair Tents,” a “Mongol Temple City in the Ordos Desert...

Ca. 1930s. 55 loose gelatin silver photographs; including a large photo ca. 19,5x25 cm (7 ¾ x 9 ¾ in).....

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Item #492 [Attractive Lacquered Album with 112 Original Photographs of Japan, China, Singapore,...
Unusual Large Vernacular Photos of Japan
[ASIA – JAPAN, CHINA & PACIFIC]

[Attractive Lacquered Album with 112 Original Photographs of Japan, China, Singapore, Samoa, and Hawaii, Including Interesting Images of Nikko Temples and Processions, Tea Houses, Villages and Hotels around Lake Hakone, Streets of Tokyo, and Nara, Panoramas of Penang and Hong Kong, Scenes of Execution in Canton, Portraits of “Maoris” and...

20 March - 31 August 1900. Oblong Folio (ca. 32,5x41 cm). With 112 gelatin silver prints of various size mounted.....

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