#PC25
September - October 1919
Oblong Octavo album (ca. 15.5x20.5 cm). 11 brown card stock leaves. With 24 mounted gelatin silver photos, ca. 11x16.5 cm (4 ¼ x 6 ½ in) and slightly smaller, all captioned in detail in manuscript black ink on mounts and all dated and initialled F.A. Period brown stiff card covers album titled on front cover "Photos." Covers with some minor wear at extremities, but overall a very good album with strong sharp images.
Historically interesting album of original gelatin silver photos taken on a voyage S.S. Boveric through the Strait of Magellan and include views of: Stern of S.S. Boveric in a gale 200 miles from the Strait of Magellan; Gale in South Atlantic; southern Patagonian channels (x2); Entrance of Chasm Reach (x2); English Narrows (x5); Glacier in Sarmiento Channel (x2); Indians coming alongside, in dug-out canoe; Plaza showing Cathedral, Conception, Chile; Plaza, Santiago, Chile; Plaza da Armas, Santiago, Chile; Travellers in a car out at Florida near Santiago, Chile; River Maipu, 20 miles from Santiago; River Maipu entering Turbines; S.S. Huasco Arica, Chile; S.S. Boveric leaving Iquique, Chile; Waterfront at Arica, Chile; Moro Rock, Arica, Chile. The S.S. Boveric was a 3987-ton steel screw steamer, built by Russell and Co. Of Glasgow in 1898. (NLA).
