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August 2023 Travel Around the World in Early Photographs
Item #610 [Album with 153 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of a Trip to Eastern Kenya, Showing...
Rare Early Photos of Eastern Kenya, Between Nairobi and Lake Baringo, in 1900-1901
1[AFRICA - KENYA - ZANZIBAR] [MCDOWELL/MACDOWALL, D.?]

[Album with 153 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of a Trip to Eastern Kenya, Showing Mombasa, Nairobi, Uganda Railway, Elmenteita and Navaisha Stations, Nyuki and Tigrish Rivers, Lakes Baringo and Nakuru, Njemps (Ilchamus), Masaai, Kikuyu, Wandorobo (Dorobo) People and Their Villages, Camps and Armed Forces of British Punitive Expeditions, Mt. Longonot...

Ca. 1900-1901. Oblong Quarto album ca. 25,5x29,5 cm (10 x 11 ½ in). 26 card stock leaves. With 153 mounted.....

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Item #605 [Album with 195 Original Gelatin Photographs of Nepal, Showing the British Legation,...
Historically Significant Extensive Collection of Rare Vernacular Photos of Nepal
3[ASIA - NEPAL]

[Album with 195 Original Gelatin Photographs of Nepal, Showing the British Legation, Hindu and Buddhist Sites and Temples in Kathmandu and Environs (Patan Durbar Square, Pashupatinath Temple, Swayambhunath Buddhist Complex, Boudhanath Temple, Taleju Temple, Rani Pokhari Pond, Durbar Hall, Changu Narayan Temple), Public Celebrations of Indra Jatra and Dashain Hindu...

Ca. 1922. Oblong Folio album ca. 31x41 cm (12 ¼ x 16 in). 29 card stock leaves. With 194 mounted.....

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Item #607 [Album with 106 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Documenting an Early Travel up the...
Important Collection of Early Rare Photos of Fort Crampel (Kaga-Bandoro), Central African Republic
5[AFRICA – CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC]

[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...

Ca. 1900s-1910s. Oblong Folio album ca. 24,5x31,5 cm (9 ½ x 12 ¼ in). 25 card stock leaves (11 blank).....

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Item #608 [Album with 100 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Titled on the Front Board:] Visit...
Rare Important Photos of the First Official Tour of the Members of the New Zealand Parliament to the Cook Islands
6[PACIFIC – COOK ISLANDS] [READ, G.A.] (fl. ca. 1900s); [WINKELMANN, Henry] (1860-1931); PERSONAL COPY OF: [SCOTLAND, Hon. Henry, M.L.C.] (1868-1910)

[Album with 100 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Titled on the Front Board:] Visit of Members of New Zealand Legislature to the Cook and Other Islands, 1903.

Ca. 1903. Oblong Large Octavo album ca. 16x22,5 cm (6 ¼ x 9 in). 50 card stock leaves. With 100.....

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Item #604 [Album with over 210 Original Gelatin Photographs of Alaska, Showing Central Alaska...
Extensive Collection of Well-Annotated Photos of Alaska, from the 1920s.
7[NORTH AMERICA - ALASKA] NELSON, Charles “Red” (1900-1982); BRAGAW, Robert (1889-1969, fl. ca. 1920s-1930s); STEWARD, H.W.; ROSSMAN, Earl; JOHNSON, George L. & others

[Album with over 210 Original Gelatin Photographs of Alaska, Showing Central Alaska (Mt. Denali, Mt. Susitna, Knik Arm, Tanana and Susitna Rivers, Cache Creek, Curry – Now a Ghost Town, Mining and Survey Camps), Anchorage Environs, Kenai Peninsula (Lake Kenai, Resurrection River, Bald Mountain, Tustumena glacier, Nuka Bay glacier), Prince...

Ca. 1920s. Oblong Folio album ca. 26x33 cm (10 ¼ x 13 in). 47 card stock leaves. With over 210.....

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Item #606 [Album with One Hundred Original Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs of California,...
Rare Early Photos of Los Angeles, San Francisco & Portland
8[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA & PACIFIC NORTHWEST - LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, PORTLAND, & VICTORIA (BC)]

[Album with One Hundred Original Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs of California, Showing Los Angeles and Environs (Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, Pasadena, Cawston Ostrich Farm, Deadmans Island near San Pedro, Long Beach), San Francisco (Ferry Building, Market Street, Golden Gate Park, Lands End Park), Portland (Union Railway Station, Streets, Willamette River...

Ca. 1900. Oblong Folio album ca. 26x32 cm (10 ¼ x 12 ½ in). 50 card stock leaves. With 100.....

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Item #554 [Album with 110 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of French Colonial Madagascar,...
Early Photos of Antsiranana and Camp d’Ambre in Madagascar
[AFRICA - MADAGASCAR]

[Album with 110 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of French Colonial Madagascar, Showing Diego Suarez/Antsiranana (Port and Roadstead, Cap Diego, Pointe du Corail, Ville Basse, Rue Colbert, Antsirane Neighbourhood), French military Camp d’Ambre and Forests of the Montagne Ambre, Betsileo, Hova, Sakalava, Antemoro People, Inhabitants of Comoros and Sainte-Marie Island/Nosy Boraha...

Ca. 1900s. Oblong Small Folio album ca. 25,5x32 cm (10 x 12 ½ in). 22 card stock leaves (2 blank).....

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Item #553 [Album with 33 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Photographs, Taken and Collected by...
Important Source of the British Defence of Walvis Bay and the Detention of Boer Prisoners-of-War on Saint Helena During the Second Boer War
[AFRICA - NAMIBIA & SAINT HELENA – SECOND BOER WAR]

[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...

Ca. 1900-1901. Oblong Small Folio album ca. 24,5x31 cm (9 ½ x 12 ¼ in). 30 card stock leaves (3.....

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Item #446 [Album with Four Pencil Drawings and Forty-Six Original Gelatin Silver Photos,...
Important Rare Early Photos of Sierra Leone
[AFRICA - SIERRA LEONE – HUT TAX WAR] [FOULKES, Charles Howard], Major-General Royal Engineers (1875-1969)

[Album with Four Pencil Drawings and Forty-Six Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Including Thirty-Four Images Taken while on Service in Sierra Leone and during the Hut Tax War of 1898-1899; With a Lithographed Plan of the Cape Coast Castle, Compiled by Foulkes for the War Office].

Ca. 1898-1899. Oblong Small Quarto album (ca. 18,5x25 cm). 51 leaves. With 46 mounted gelatin silver snapshot photographs, from ca.....

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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 #595 [Album with 95 Original Albumen Photographs of French Colonial Vietnam, Showing Saigon...
Historically Significant Extensive Collection of Large Early Photos of Vietnam
[ASIA - VIETNAM] GSELL, Émile (1838-1879), & others

[Album with 95 Original Albumen Photographs of French Colonial Vietnam, Showing Saigon (Harbour, Arsenal, Grand Canal, Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica before and after its Construction was Completed, Mong Bridge, Buildings of “Banque de l’Indochine” and “Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation,” Barracks of French Marines, &c.), Hoa Nghiem Cave in the...

Ca. 1870s-1890s. Oblong Folio album ca. 30x46,5 cm (11 ¾ x 18 ¼ in). 40 card stock leaves. With 95.....

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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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Item #254 [Collection of Two Albums With 78 Original Gelatin Silver Prints, Over 120 Newspaper...
Historically Important Photos of the Erzincan Earthquake in Turkey
[MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD - TURKEY - ANGLO-TURKISH RELIEF FUND]

[Collection of Two Albums With 78 Original Gelatin Silver Prints, Over 120 Newspaper Clippings and Several Pieces of Printed Ephemera and Typewritten Documents, Illustrating the Activities of the Anglo-Turkish Relief Fund Which Aided the Victims of the 1939 Erzincan Earthquake].

Ca. 1940-1942. Two Folio albums (ca. 31x24 cm). Each with 24 stock leaves. Both albums house 78 gelatin silver prints.....

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Item #598 [Album with 39 Early Original Gelatin Photographs of Fairbanks, Showing St. Matthew’s...
Rare Early Photos of Fairbanks, Alaska
[NORTH AMERICA - ALASKA - FAIRBANKS]

[Album with 39 Early Original Gelatin Photographs of Fairbanks, Showing St. Matthew’s Church and Hospital, the Launch of the “Koyukuk” River Steamer, City Streets, Interior of a Building Decorated for the “Floral Ball,” Firefighters and their Horse-Driven Cart, “Fireman Cook” with Pet Bears, Pioneer J. [Schuster?], “Sale Cup” of the...

Ca. 1900s – 1920. Oblong Octavo album ca. 15x20 cm (5 ¾ x 7 ¾ in). 50 card stock leaves.....

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Item #571 [Album with 46 Rare Original Albumen Photographs, Showing Monterey (Chinatown, Monterey...
Early Photos of California Including Rare Images of Chinatowns in Monterey, San Francisco and Los Angeles
[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA - MONTEREY, SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES] TABER, Isaiah West (1830-1912); JOHNSON, Charles Wallace Jacob (1833-1903); SAVAGE, Charles Roscoe (1832-1909), and others

[Album with 46 Rare Original Albumen Photographs, Showing Monterey (Chinatown, Monterey Bay, Hotel del Monte, First Adobe Buildings, Custom House, “The First Jail,” “General Fremont’s Headquarters during the Mexican War,” &c.), San Francisco (“Mrs. Mark Hopkins and Gov. Stanford Mansions,” “Court, Palace Hotel,” “Bazaar in Chinatown,” “The Entry – Chinese...

Ca. 1886. Oblong Quarto album ca. 18x28 cm (7x11 in). 23 card stock leaves. With 46 mounted albumen photos from.....

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Item #544 [Historically Important Album with 104 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and Real Photo...
Interesting Early Photos of California including the Former Settlement of Hobart Mills
[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA – HOBART MILLS]

[Historically Important Album with 104 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and Real Photo Postcards of California, Showing the Town of Hobart Mills (non-Existent since 1938), Prosser Creek, Independence Lake, Tahoe Lake, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Gabriel Mission, Life Savers at Long Beach, &c.].

Ca. 1900s. Oblong Folio album ca. 26x34,5 cm (10 x 13 ½ in). 18 card stock leaves + 11 black.....

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Item #602 [Album with ca. 320 Original Gelatin Photographs, Documenting Oil Exploration and...
Historically Significant Extensive Collection of Early Photos of the Oil Industry in Colombia
[SOUTH AMERICA - COLOMBIA, TEXAS & LOUISIANA - OIL] [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. Oblong Small Folio album ca. 25x31,5 cm (9 ¾ x 12 ¼ in). 47 card stock leaves.....

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