Historically Significant Extensive Collection of 202 Loose Phototypes Documenting the Construction of the Central Section of the Amur Railway (1910–1914), and Showing Convict Laborers Working in Harsh Conditions (Earthworks, Bridge Construction, Quarrying), Local Children from a Railway Orphanage Posing with their Teacher, Hired Workers Drinking Before Departure Home, etc.; also, with the Views of Newly Built Railway Stations (Taldan, Gonzha, Magdagachi, Tygda, Ushuman, Tu, Chernyavo, Gondatti, Ledyanaya, Alekseevsk), Early Work Equipment (Trucks, Ballast Trains, Hand-Operated Drilling Rigs, etc.), Emerging Towns & Villages (Alekseevsk, Gondattievo), and Penal Infrastructure (Barracks & Camps). Ca. 1910-1914.
Historically Significant Archive of Manuscripts and Period Copies Relating to French Naval and Land Engagements on the East Coast of India and the Cape Verde Islands between 1781 and 1783, Led by Vice-Admiral Pierre André de Suffren as part of the 1778-1783 Anglo-French War, Including the Battles of Porto Praya (16 April 1781), Sadras (17 February 1782), Providien (12 April), Negapatam (6 July), Trincomalee (3 September), and Cuddalore (20 June 1783). [Ca. 1781-1785].
Greenham & Evans (fl. ca. 1895-1900); King, Henry (1855-1923); Caire, Nicholas John (1837-1918); Sargeant, Albert & Others. Album with 77 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Studio Photographs of Australia and Tasmania, Showing Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Gippsland Lakes, Hobart, Strahan (Tasmania), Cape Raoul, Fren Tree Bower, Portraits of Aboriginal Australians, Gold Miners, Tree Loggers, &c. Ca. 1880s-1890s.
Historically Significant Album with ca. 330 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Documenting Oil Drilling and Transportation by the Texas Company of Mexico in the Amatlan and Tepetate Oil Fields South of Tampico, Veracruz. Ca. late 1910s – early 1920s.
Historically Significant Collection of ca. 103 Gelatin Silver Photographs With Captions of 10 Different Islands in Vanuatu and 9 Gelatin Silver Photographs of Papua New Guinea, Taken by a French Planters Showing Copra, Cocoa, Coffee, Coconut And Cotton Plantations, Barques, Canoes And Ports Used For Transportation, Portraits Of The Locals in Traditional Dress And Communicating With Planters, The Vietnamese Settlers, Brought To Help Cultivate The Land, Local Architecture, As Well As Photos Of Important New Caledonian Entrepreneur Tiby Hagen And The Building Of His Headquarters On Epi Island. Ca. May-November of 1929.
Historically Significant Album with ca. 196 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Snapshot and Studio Photographs of British India, Showing Panchgani Hill Station (Exterior and Interior of a Church, “Chaplain’s Bungalow,” Students from “Panchgani Girls’ High School, 1905”), Varanasi (Ganges River and Ghats, “Cow Temple,” a Scene of “the Morning Sacrifice”), Mahabaleshwar, Mathura, Kalimpong, Vrindavan (Rangji Temple), Fatehpur Sikri (Salim Chisti Mausoleum, Akbar’s Pillar), Agra (Agra Fort, Taj Mahal, Pearl Mosque, Akbar’s Tomb), Delhi (“Hindu Raj House,” St. James’ Church, Red Fort, Jama Masjid), Narkanda (“the Shrine on Narkanda Ridge,” “the Dak Bungalow”), Shimla Christ Church during Coronation of King George, &c. Ca. 1900s.
Historically Significant Album with 97 Original Gelatin Silver Vernacular Photographs, Taken by French Travellers in Tunisia, Showing Tunis (Al-Zaytuna Mosque and Minaret, French Gate, Cathedral of Saint Vincent de Paul, Hotel Eymon, Medina), Saint Louis Cathedral in Carthage, Chapel Saint-Louis de Carthage, Borj Cedria (School, Mansion of Paul Potin, Winery), Kairouan (Great Mosque, Tunis Gate, Street Views), Sousse (Port, General and Street Views), Bedouins, &c. Ca. 1900s – early 1910s.
Smith, William Thomas (1919-1978); Smith, Mary Louise (née Mason) (1925-?). Album of Over 390 Original and Studio Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Panama (US Navy Shore Patrol, a Naval Banquet, Portraits of Shore Patrol Officers; Boating on the Panama Canal; Portraits of Indigenous Panamanians; Panamanian Cities (Colon, Cristobal, Balboa, etc.)), an Inspection of the Fifth Naval District Shore Patrol (Virginia), Shooting Range Practice for the US Secret Service Uniformed Force Pistol Team, etc. Ca. 1940s.
Historically Significant Extensive Collection of Three Albums with over 200 Original Gelatin Silver Studio and Amateur Photographs, Taken and Collected by a Pilot of the Royal Air Force during His Service in the 208th (Army Cooperation) RAF Squadron, Stationed on the Ismailia Air Base near Cairo in the 1920s – early 1930s. Ca. 1920s – early 1930s.
[Manly/Manley, Merle Wood] (1895-1982). Historically Significant Extensive Collection of Two Albums with ca. 500 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Documenting Hikes and Mountaineering Trips of the Mazamas Club (Oregon) in the Cascades and the Rocky Mountains in the 1920s, Including the Ascents of Mt. Hood (1923), Mt. St. Helens (Labour Day 1924), Mt. Jefferson (1923), “Glacier Peak Region” (1926), Mt. Rainier (1927), Mt. Adams, Mt. Chinidere, Manly’s Surveys for the Club’s “Research Committee,” Views of the Mazamas Lodge, the Interior of the Mazamas Club in Portland, Portraits of Mountaineers, Including the Compiler, &c. Ca. 1923-1927.
[Arndt, Max E., Dr.] Historically Significant Album with 110 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Compiled by a German Engineer, Including 87 Images Taken during His Work in Elisabethville, Belgian Congo (now Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Showing Railway Construction, First Buildings of Elisabethville (Railway Station, Radio Station, Governor’s House, “my house,” “Bucherie, W. Ulmann,” “Carlton Hotel”), Facilities of the Etoile du Congo Copper Mines, Local European Residents, Congolese People, &c.; With Photos of His Work on Repair of Infrastructure in Belgium, Occupied by Germany, in 1914. Ca. 1911-1912, 1914-1915.
Rust, Thomas Alfred (1841-1904) & Others. Album with 42 Original Albumen Studio Photographs of Northern India, Showing All Saints Cathedral in Allahabad (Prayagraj) During and Shortly after Its Construction, Local Clergy Including Bishop of Calcutta Rev. Edward Ralph Johnson, the First Bishop of the Diocese of Lucknow Rev. Arthur Clifford, Civil and Military Chaplains, Organists, Choir Members, Buildings of Bishop Johnson School for Girls and Colvin School for Boys, a Series of Portraits of Royal Artillery Servicemen in Allahabad and Roorkee, British Military Establishments in Chakrata and Kailana, a portrait of Commander-in-Chief of India Sir Frederick Roberts at Chakrata, &c. Ca. 1880s-1890s.
Arnoux, Hippolyte (active ca. 1860 - ca. 1890); Zangaki, Adelphoi (active 1870s–1890s). Album with Sixteen Original Albumen Studio Photograph Views of Port Said, Suez Canal, and Aden. Ca. 1870s.
Album of 34 Gelatin Silver Photographs of the French Colony of Dahomey, showing Porto-Novo (Governor’s Palace, Catholic Mission, Customs Building), the Port of Cotonou, a Trading Post in Dogbo, Adja-Ouéré, “a King’s Hut,” Local Villages, Portraits of Native People and French Residents, the Booth of the “Compagnie de l’Ouémé-Dahomey” at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900, etc. Ca. 1890s – early 1900s.
Historically Significant Collection of 40 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of German Protectorate of Kamerun, Showing Foumban, the Capital of the Kingdom of Bamum (Royal Palace, Sultan Njoya’s School, Basel Mission Chapel, City Gates), the Town of Banyo, German Military Forts, Officers, Native Soldiers, Riders, Load Carriers, People in Traditional Costumes, &c. Ca. 1900s – early 1910s.
Historically Significant Collection of 48 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of French West Africa, Focusing on the Construction and Completed Infrastructure of the Congo-Ocean Railway in French Congo – Mostly, in the Mayombe Hills, Showing Viaducts under Construction and Completed (106th, 108th, 117th, 128th, 136th and 137th km), Earthworks (119th and 120th km), Line Under Construction near Pointe-Noire and Brazzaville, Railway Station in Goma-Bielo, Foulakary River, Bouenza River Waterfalls, Alima River, Local School and Children, &c. Ca. 1930s.
Album with Sixty-one Original Albumen Photographs, the Majority of Which are of South Africa Showing Detailed Views of Kimberley and De Beers Diamond Mines, Johannesburg Gold Mine, Sites and Memorials of the Anglo-Zulu and First Boer Wars, Views of Pietermaritzburg, Georgetown, Durban, Newcastle; Ethnographic Photos of Zulus and “Kaffirs”; With: Photos of Zanzibar (6), Lamu in Kenya (6), Aden (4) and Egypt (8). Ca. late 1880s.
Historically Significant Collection of 34 Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken during a Survey Travel Prior to the Construction of the First Ethiopian Railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa, with Scenes of Dirt Road Travel on a Truck, Crossing Rivers, Views of Expedition Camps in Hurso and Mulu, a Market in Tadecha Malka on the Germama River, Addis Ababa, Catholic Mission in Dire Dawa, Portraits of French Expedition Members, Advisor to Emperor Menelik II Armand Savouré and His Family, Ethiopian Women and Children, &c. Ca. 1911-1912.
Interesting Extensive Collection of 223 Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken during a Mining Survey Expedition in Italian East Africa in the 1930s, Showing the Party Members Posing next to Various Geological Formations, Rock and Ore Samples, Africans Performing Artisanal Gold Panning, the Obelisk of Axum, Two Ethiopian Megalithic Stellae, Local Villages and People, Mountains and Valleys, Roads, Bridges, &c. Ca. late 1930s.
Belfield, Georgie Sinclair (ca. 1860-1931), [Attributed to]. Album with Forty-Eight Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, including about Six Real and Printed Photo Postcards, of Kenya, Taken and Collected by a Scottish Jeweler Based in Nairobi, and Showing a Safari Expedition with Hunters, Game, and Native Guides; Portraits of Local Tribespeople (Likely from the Kikuyu Community) in Traditional Attire and Dance Rituals; Scenes of the Compiler and His Companions Bathing and Socializing with Local Missionaries; Views of Native Huts, Government Road, the Manor Hotel in Mombasa, Military Ceremonies, Sporting Events, and Everyday Urban and Rural Life in Colonial Kenya. Titled: Photographs. Ca. 1910s.
Album of 66 Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photographs of a Safari Trip in British East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, and Northern Tanzania), Showing Hunters and Game, Their Camps and Rest Houses, a Durant Rugby (Safari Vehicle), the Karamojan People, Native Guides and Porters, East African Scenery Titled: Kenya – Uganda – Belgian Congo – Sudan, October 1926 – February 1927. Ca. 1925-1927.
Freire de Andrade, Alfredo Augusto (1859-1929); Serrano, Jose Antonio Matheus, Captain; Sousa Machado, Manuel de, Major (1850-1908). Historically Significant Extensive Collection of 104 Large Original Albumen Photographs of Portuguese East Africa, Taken by Portuguese Officials in the early 1890s during the Expeditions to Delineate Borders of the Colony with Transvaal/South African Republic and the Territory of British South Africa Company (Future Southern Rhodesia) and to Survey the Zambezi River. Ca. 1890s.
Historically Significant Collection of ca. 180 Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of German Southwest Africa, Showing Windhoek (Garnison Hospital, Schweringburg Castle), Schutztruppe Forts (Sesfontein and Others), Military Camps, Farms, Native Namibians and Their Villages, German Officers, Namibian Hills and Deserts, &c. Ca. 1900s.
Historically Significant Collection of 48 Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of German Southwest Africa and Ten Cabinet Portrait Photos of German Military Officers Who Served in the Colony, Showing Schutztruppe Forts (Including Sesfontein Fort), German Farms, Native Namibians, German Officers, Namibian Hills and Deserts, &c. Ca. 1900s.