Historically Significant Extensive Collection of Nine Folders with over 700 Original Film Negatives and an Album with 96 Well-Annotated Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken by a French Resident of Indochina in the 1930s; With Interesting Images of Angkor Wat Temple Complex, the Royal Palace of Cambodia, Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City, Chau Doc and Nearby Villages, Battambang, Buddhist Temples and Sculptures, Scenes of Public Celebrations, Military Parades, Street Processions, Portraits of Native Farmers, Musicians, Dancers, Elephant Drivers, Buddhist Monks, Tribesmen, Families and Children, &c. Ca. 1930s.
Skeen & Co. (fl. ca. 1860s-1920s); The Colombo Apothecaries Co. LTD. (fl. ca. 1880s-1890s); Scowen, Charles Thomas (1852-1948) & Others. Album with 77 Original Albumen Photos of Sri Lanka, Showing Colombo, Kandy, Portraits of Market Sellers, Tea Pluckers, Buddhist Monks, a “Kandian Chief,” a Female Musician, a Snake Charmer, &c., Titled: Der ferne Osten. Ca. 1890s.
Skeen & Co (ca. 1860s-1920s) & others. Album of 12 Albumen Studio Photographs of Colombo, Showing Its Harbour and Breakwater, Chatham Street, Mount Lavinia, Kelani River Pontoon Bridge, a Hindu Temple, a Religious Procession, etc. Ca. 1890s.
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.
Interesting Album with ca. 260 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Caribbean, Taken and Collected during a Cruise of S.S. “Moltke” with Amateur Snapshot and Studio Photos of Destruction of St. Pierre (Martinique) after the Eruption of Mount Pelee in May 1902, and Lively Views of Havana (Cuba), Charlotte Amalie (Saint Thomas), San Juan (Puerto Rico), Fort-de-France (Martinique), Nassau (Bahamas), Portraits of the Locals and Tourists, &c. Ca. early 1910s.
Album with Twenty-four Original Gelatin Silver Photos Documenting the 1919 Voyage of S.S. Boveric Through the Strait of Magellan Starting in the South Atlantic and Ending in Iquique, Chile. September - October 1919.
[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.
Postlewaite, Margaret Alice (ca. 1871-1955). Album with Ninety-Eight Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of an Early Cruise from New York to the Black Sea & the Mediterranean, Showing Constantinople (Istanbul), Trebizond (Trabzon), Tiflis (Tbilisi), Sebastopol, Yalta, and Odessa; also with the Photographs of Madeira, Gibraltar, Algiers, Palermo, Nice, Genoa, and Contrexéville; titled: Margot Alice Postlewaite Views Taken on our Two Months Trip on the Prinzessin Victoria Luise. Leaving New York Wednesday, March 12th 1902. Ca. 1902.
Maison Garrigues (fl. ca. 1870s-1911); Soler, F. (fl. ca. 1892-1930). Album of 92 Albumen Studio and Amateur Photographs of Tunis and Environs, Including Carthage, La Goulette, Le Bardo; Portraits of Tunisians, etc. Ca. 1890s-1910s.
Leroux, Alexandre (1836-1912); Rhomaïdès Frères (fl. ca. 1868-1910s); Neurdien Frères (fl. ca. 1850s-1900s). Album of 93 Original Studio and Amateur Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Countries in the Mediterranean, Including Greece (Acropolis of Athens, Mycenae, Panorama of Nafplio), and Turkey (Izmir, Ephesus, Honaz), and Algeria (Algiers, Biskra, Roman Ruins, Portraits of Algerians), etc. Ca. 1890s-1900s.
Album of 173 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Greece, Including Athens (the Acropolis, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Church of Panagia Kapnikarea, Royal Palace, Kerameikos, Street Scenes), Sparta (Street Scenes), Meteora Monasteries, Temple of Hera Olympia, Temple of Apollo Delphi, Delos, Knossos; Turkey, Including Istanbul and Smyrna, etc. Ca. 1910-1912.
Berggren, Guillaume (1835-1920); Abdullah Frères (active ca. 1858-1899); Sebah & Joailler (1888-1908) & Others. Album with 65 Original Albumen Photographs of Ottoman Istanbul and Its People. Ca. 1890s.
Album with Eight Original Albumen Photos Documenting the Svyatohirsk Lavra a Few Years before its Closure by the Soviet Authorities; with Rare Photos of the Now-Destroyed Arsenius Skete and the Holy Gate.; titled: Vidy Uspenskoy Svyatogorskoy Pustyni [Views of the Holy Mountains Pustyn of the Holy Dormition. Ca. early-1900s.
Historically Significant Album with 100 Original Gelatin Silver Amateur Photographs, Documenting Construction of Cast Iron Metallurgical Factories on the Vishera River and Its Tributaries (Kama River Basin, Eastern Urals), belonging to the French-Owned Volga-Vishera Mining and Metallurgical Joint-Stock Company or Société Minière et Métallurgique Volga-Vichéra, Titled: Vizhaika – Kutim, Vels – Chuvalsk. Reka Vishera i Zavody Obschestva “Volga-Vishera.” Vyaika – Koutime. Velce – Tchouvalsk. La Vichéra et les Usines de la Société «Volga-Vishera». Ca. 1890s – early 1900s.
Collection of 14 Real Photo Postcards of a Equatorial Line-Crossing Ceremony, Showing Crew Members in Costume as King Neptune and His Retinue, Ceremony Rituals (“Equatorial Baptism,” Being Sprayed in the Face), and Officers and Sailors in Uniform. Ca. 1920s.
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.
[Ross, George Olen, Colonel, G-5 III MAF Headquarters] (1920-1994). Extensive Private Archive of Over 420 Mounted and Loose Gelatin Silver Photos (Including over a Hundred Panoramas) taken and Collected by Colonel George O. Ross During His Service in the Headquarters of the III Marine Amphibious Force, Da Nang, in the Vietnam War, and Showing Da Nang Military and Air Base, Numerous Military Planes and Helicopters, Commanding Officers of the III MAF at Reviews, Award Ceremonies, Dinners and Social Events, Korean and South Vietnamese Military Commanders, Open-Air Catholic Mass Led by Cardinal Francis Spellman in Vietnam, Views of Da Nang, Portraits of Vietnamese Civilians, School Children, &c.; With Eight Official Invitations to Military Ceremonies and Dinners in Da Nang. Ca. 1965-1967.
Thomas, M. Historically Important Album with Sixty-Five Gelatin Silver Photographs and One Real Photo Postcard Taken by an American Officer, “Major Thomas,” during the Allied Intervention in Vladivostok, Showing Golden Horn Bay with Allied Naval Vessels Navigating Along the Waterfront, Bustling Scenes of Svetlanskaya Street with Pedestrians in Traditional and Western Attire, and Rare Early Views of the Railway Station, and the Now-Demolished Triumphal Arch and the Church of the Intercession of the Theotokos; Also Documenting the Philippines, with Images of American Soldiers’ Quarters in Manila, Indigenous Filipinos Holding Shields, and Iconic Landmarks (the Minor Basilica and National Shrine of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, Plaza San Lorenzo Ruiz, and a Buddhist Sculpture); titled: Scrap Book. Ca. 1919.
[Boynton, J., Attributed to.] Historically Interesting Collection of Seventy-Six Original Photographs Taken by a Young Berkeley Resident During his Trip to Mount Rainier, Showing Group Portraits of Uniformed Travelers Ascending the Mountain and Rare Early Views of the Paradise Valley. Ca. 1928-1929.
Historically Significant Album with 46 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and About 50 Pieces of Ephemera, Taken and Collected by an American Tourist During Two Wartime Cruises to the West Indies aboard SS Nieuw Amsterdam and MS Kungsholm, Featuring Lively Vernacular Scenes of Port-au-Prince (Cockfight, Open-Air Markets, Street Vendors, Thatched Houses, City Hall with Haitian Flag, Capitol View), Kenscoff (Panoramic Bay Views), Havana (Travelers at Morro Castle, Columbus Cathedral, Gran Casino, Cemetery, Spreckels Tomb), Nassau (Market Scenes), etc.; titled: Photographs. Ca. 1940-1941.
Historically Interesting Album with 286 Original Photographs (Including One Real Photo Postcard) from a 1915 Railway Trip Through the American West (Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, California), Mexico, and British Columbia, Featuring the Pikes Peak Railway, Isleta and Albuquerque Depots, Tijuana Fair, and Over Ten Close-Up Portraits of Native American Men and Children in Patterned Dress; also with the Photos of the Panama International Pacific Exposition in California and Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia. Ca. 1915.
Bond, Frances Eileen Berkswell. Album with over a Hundred Original Photographs Compiled During Two Cruises: a 1931-1932 World Cruise on RMS “Empress of Britain” Showing Jerusalem, Cairo, Bombay, Colombo, Batavia, Bangkok, Beijing, the Great Wall of China, Japan, Hawaii, Panama Canal, and others; and a 1934 Cruise around the Caribbean, Showing Nassau, Jamaica, Colon in Panama, Cartagena, La Guaira in Venezuela, Trinidad, Barbados and others; Titled: World Cruise. From Monaco to Southampton. December 15th 1931 – April 16th 1932. Q.S.T.S. “Empress of Britain;” Cruise to the West Indies. From Southampton to Southampton. January 27th – March 8th 1934. R.M.S. “Homeric.” 1931-1934.
Historically Significant Album with 72 Original Photos of a French Military Hospital Camp for Serbian Soldiers Recovering in Tunisia after the Great Retreat or Serbian Golgotha; the Photos Show Starved Serbian Soldiers in a Hospital at Vido Island (Greece), Their Arrival and Disembarkation at the Camp, Disinfection, Interior of Hospital Rooms, Medical Operations, Patients, Doctors and Nurses, Recovering Soldiers Dancing and Playing Musical Instruments, Official Visits and Reviews, Possibly by the Maritime Prefect of Bizerte Admiral Guépratte, Serbian Orthodox Funeral Service and Internment, Serbian Cemetery near “Sidi Yaya,” &c. Ca. 1916-1917.
[Viges And Darby Families, Attributed to]. Album with Forty Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and Eight Real Photo Postcards from the Viges and Darby Families of Eunice, St. Landry, Louisiana, Showing Black American Soldiers in Segregated Units of the U.S. Army, Engaging in Labor Activities, Posing in Post-War Japan, Heading towards Fort Benning, etc.; Units and Regiments Represented Include 24th “Buffalo” Infantry Regiment, United States Army Central, the Anti-Aircraft Command, the 6th Armored Division, the Civil Air Patrol, etc. Ca. 1943-1946.