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Historically Significant Album with ca. 330 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken and Collected by a Sailor from U.S.S. “Huron” and U.S.S. “Black Hawk” during Their Service in China and the Philippines in the 1920s, Showing U.S. Naval Ships, Naval Exercise at Sea, U.S. Fleet in Chefoo/Yantai, Views of Chefoo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tsingtau/Qingdao, Villages and Native People in the Philippines, American Sailors at Service and Touring the Cities, &c. Ca. 1920s.
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Interesting Collection of Twelve Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Shanghai, Showing Longhua Temple Pagoda, Willow Patern Tea House and Nine Curve Bridge, Several Views of the Bund (Street View with the Original Building of the Shanghai Club, Bandstand in the Bund Public Garden, Various Parts of Bund Riverfront), &c. Ca. 1900s.
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[Kitchin, Eleanor Harriet] (1888-1969). Interesting Private Archive of Nineteen Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and ca. Thirty Manuscript, Typewritten and Printed Documents and Ephemera (Letters, Notes, Mandarin Chinese Reading Worksheets, Invitations, Business Cards, Greeting Cards, Newspaper Clippings, a Program of a Charity Enterntainment in Shanghai, &c.), Made and Collected by an American Female Teacher and Administrator in the Y.W.C.A. Establishments in China in the 1920s. Ca. 1922-1925.
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Collection of Twenty-one Large Albumen Photographs of Classic Period Sights in Greece with Eighteen Taken in Athens with an Emphasis on the Acropolis Including Photos of the Parthenon, Olympieion, Erechtheion, Theater and the Temple of Athena Nike. Ca. 1890.
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$ 525.00
Collection of 32 Albumen Photographs of Central Colorado, Showing Glenwood Springs (Hotel Colorado, Hot Springs Bathhouse), Colorado Springs (Street Scene), Rocky Mountains, Arkansas River, Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods, William’s Canyon. Ca. 1890s.
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Bandy, C. W. [Attributed to]. Album with 95 Real Photo and Printed Postcards, as well as Ca. Two Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken and Collected during an Early Hunting Trip to Colorado, Showing the Traveling Party by Campsites and Log Cabins in Rocky Mountains, Manitou & Pikes Peak Cog Railway, Garden of Gods, Glenwood Springs, etc.; also, with the Images of the Now-Demolished Second Antlers Hotel in Colorado Springs, Local Bridges, Railway Lines & Locomotives, Aerial Views, etc. Ca.1908.
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Album of 48 Original Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photographs of a Hunting Trip in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Including Campsites, Their Horses and Carriage, a Rural Post Office, and Hotel Colorado Titled: Off for the Rockies – Two Spike Club 1901
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[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.
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$ 2750.00
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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.
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Historically Important Album with ca. 236 Gelatin Silver Photographs (Including One Real Photo Postcard), Illustrating an Early Trip from New York to the West Coast and Showing San Francisco Post-1906 Earthquake (City Hall, Golden Gate Park, the Ferry Building, Call Building, Market & Sutter Streets (with Signs (“O’Brien Company,” “Hotel,” “Dentist.”), Damaged Structures, etc.); also, with the Photos of Trains and Old Ashland Passenger Depot in Oregon, Travelers in Colorado Springs, etc. Ca. 1906-1911.
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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.
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Historically Significant Exhaustive Archive of over 3000 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and over 90 Pieces of Printed and Typewritten Ephemera, consisting of Fifteen Albums and Portfolios and an Extraordinary Collection of Press Photos Documenting and Giving an Almost Complete Overview of the History of East Berlin and German Democratic Republic in the Years 1949-1990.
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$ 2250.00
Album with 394 Original Amateur Gelatin Silver Studio Photographs of Ecuador, Showing Rio Napo, Coastal and Riverside Villages, Snow-Capped Mountains (most likely, Cotopaxi), Cattle Ranches, Banana and Papaya Plantations, a Bullfight in Quito, a Pottery Workshop, Market Stalls, “Handicraft/ Art-Workshop, Arturo Kiewe,” “Hotel de Palace,” “Pension Federico,” Scenes of Transportation and Installation of a Tank, Possibly for a Brewery, Portraits of German Residents, Ecuadorian Mule Drivers, Loaders Carrying Wooden Casks, a Show Polisher, Children at a street Christmas Celebration, Native Species of Mammals, Birds and Turtles, &c. Ca. 1950s.
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$ 1500.00
Zangaki Brothers (fl. ca. 1860s-1890s); Peridis, Pappa (fl. ca. 1880s-1900s); Marquis & Fiorillo, & Others. Interesting Collection of Twenty-Eight Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Studio Photographs of Egypt, Showing Cairo (Citadel, Muhammad Ali Mosque, Nile River at Bulaq, Streets), Aswan, Pyramids of Giza (Featuring Mena House Hotel, Nile River, a Small Dam), Philae Temple (General Views, Temple of Hathor), Karnak Temple (Great Hypostyle Hall, Pylon of Ptolemy III), Nile’s First Cataract at Aswan, Dahabiya Boat “Olga” under the Swedish Flag, Cataract Hotel in Aswan, a Scene of Official Celebration on the Nile Bank, Likely in Aswan, &c. Ca. 1880s.-1900s.
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$ 1250.00
Historically Significant Collection of Twenty-Two Original Gelatin Silver Amateur Photographs of Egypt, Taken by European Travellers and Showing Philae Temple, Nile’s First Cataract and Nearby Shellal Village before the Construction of the Aswan Low Dam in 1902, not Fully Excavated Karnak and Luxor Temples, Inundated Colossi of Memnon, Tombs of the Theban Necropolis, Portraits of a Bichari Boy, a Egyptian Girl and Her Grandmother from Thebes, the Travellers in a Egyptian Hotel Garden, &c. Ca. 1890s.
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$ 750.00
Collection of Twenty Early Original Albumen Stereoview Photographs of Egypt, Showing Cairo, Ancient Egyptian Temples and Sites along the Nile and Suez Canal Under Construction. Ca. 1860s.
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$ 2250.00
Album of Over 50 Real Photo Postcards with 8 Original Ink Drawings and Watercolours Showing Egypt, Including Cairo (Pyramids of Giza, Mena House Hotel, the Egyptian Museum), Luxor Temple, Karnak Temple, Medinet Habu, and Aswan. Ca. 1920s-1930s.
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$ 2250.00
Zangaki brothers (fl. ca. 1880s-1890s); Beato, Antonio (-1906); Arnoux, Hippolyte (fl. ca.1860s-1900); Maison Bonfils (fl. ca. 1860s-1939); Sebah, Jean (1872-1947); Maison Fiorillo (fl. ca. 1870s-1915). Album of 74 Albumen Studio Photographs of Egyptian Cities (Cairo, Luxor, Alexandria, Tell el-Kebir), the Suez Canal (Suez, Port Said, Construction of the Canal, Suez Company Offices), Portraits of Locals (Nubians, Merchants, Vendors, Street Scenes, etc.), and Ancient Sites (Pyramids of Giza, Karnak Temple, Philae Temple Complex). Ca. 1880s-1890s.
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$ 2250.00
Album of 87 Gelatin Silver Photographs of Egypt, Including Ancient Temples and Sites (Philae, Medinet-Abou, Dendera, Karnak, Luxor, Edfu, Abydos, Esna), Cairo (Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan, Cairo Citadel, Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Qaytbay Funerary Complex, French Legation), Aswan (Elephantine, Street Market, Quarry), a Malwid Celebration, a Street Demonstration, etc. Ca. 1914.
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$ 2250.00
Hammerschmidt, Wilhelm (ca. 1830 - d. 1869); Désiré, Ermé (fl. ca. 1864-1885); Royer & Aufiére (fl. ca. 1860s), Délié, Hippolyte (fl ca. 1860-1880s), De Michele, Luigi/Fotografia Egiziana (fl. ca. 1850-1890), Neurdein, Étienne (fl. ca. 1870s-1900s), Deplanque, Jules, & Others. Album of Sixty Early Original Carte-de-visite Albumen Photographs of Egypt - Mostly Portraits of the Locals (Water Carriers, Musicians, “Bedouins from Giza,” Camel, Oxen and Donkey Riders, Sellers of Oranges or Sugar Canes, a Beggar, a Barber and His Client, a “Tobacco Cutter,” lsmail Pasha, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Arab and Nubian Women with Water Jugs, Smoking Hookah, Posing in Traditional Dress, with Covered Faces, and Others), Also Views of Cairo (Muhammad Ali Mosque, Mosque of Qani-Bay, “Houses of Copts,” &c.), Suez Canal, Pompey’s Pillar, &c. Ca. 1860s.-1880s.
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Frith, Francis (1822-1898). Historically Significant Collection of Twenty-Five Early Original Albumen Photos of Egypt from His Famous Series “Egypt, Palestine and Nubia” (1862), Showing Cairo (General View with Aqsunqur Mosque and Madrasa of Umm al-Sultan Sha’ban; Funerary Mosque of Quani-Bay, Southern Cemetery of Cairo Necropolis, Azbakeya District, Al-Hakim Mosque, Bab al-Azab Gate to the Citadel), Pyramids of Giza and Saqqara, the Sphinx Partly Buried in Sand, Philae Temple (General Views, First Pylon, Trajan’s Kiosk, Western Colonnade), Ruins on Bigeh Island, Aswan, Edfu Temple, Kom Ombo Temple, Aswan, Bas-Reliefs of Isis and Horus in Kalabsha Temple, &c. Ca. 1857-1859.
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Zangaki Brothers (fl. ca. 1860s-1890s); Frith, Francis (1822-1898); Fiorillo, Luigi (active ca. 1870s-1890s); Hammerschmidt, Wilhelm (ca. 1830-1869); Bonfils, Felix (1831-1885), & others. Historically Significant Collection of Seventy-Five Early Original Albumen Photos of Egypt, Showing Cairo (Citadel and Muhammad Ali Mosque, Necropolis, Qasr el Nil/El Gezira Bridge, Gezira Palace, Ablution Fountain in Muhammad Ali Mosque, Interior of Sultan Barquq Mosque, a Street in Old Cairo, a Hotel in Helwan, “village Com-el-Assuit”), Alexandria (Pompey’s Pillar, Cleopatra’s Needle, Harbour and Port, Hippodrome, Abandoned Palace of Said Pasha in El Max, Muhammad Ali Square, Mahmudiyya Canal, Ras El-Tin Palace), Port Said (Suez Canal Company’s Office, Quay, Lighthouse, Palais Hollandaise, Rue du Commerce, Eastern Exchange Hotel), Suez and Suez Canal, Pyramids of Giza and Sphinx, Philae Temple, Fallen Statue of Ramses II near the Ruins of Memphis, Portraits of Egyptians, &c. Ca. 1850s-1880s.
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$ 2500.00
Collection of Sixty-Nine Early Original Albumen Stereoview Photographs of Egypt, Showing the Alexandria Waterworks and Kom Ad Dikah Neighbourhood, Almost Certainly Taken by European Associates of the Waterworks and Their Servants, Views of Cairo, and Ancient Egyptian Temples and Sites along the Nile. 1863-4.
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Interesting Album with 48 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Egyptian Government Vehicles (Automobiles, Trucks, Motorcycles), Garages and Mechanical Workshops in the 1920s, Titled: Mechanical Transport. Ministry of Communications. Ca. 1920s.
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Cosens, Robert, Lieutenant-Colonel (1866-1943). Album of 192 Albumen and Gelatin Silver Photographs Compiled by Robert Cosens, a British Military Officer, Documenting His Service in Gibraltar, India, Egypt, and Burma, with Group Portraits of Regiments and Officers; Photos of British Barracks, Camps, Reviews, a Wedding of a British Officer in Madras; and Views of Gibraltar, Alexandria, Port Said, Cairo, Malta, etc. Ca. 1890s-1930s.
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