Historically Significant Archive of Nine Original Autograph Letters to Colonel Charles Nugent and Lt. Charles Watson of the Royal Engineers, Talking about Relations with the Ethiopian Empire and Gordon being Kept “Semi Prisoner” by the Emperor Yohannes IV, Who “Cuts the Lips of Those Who Smoke, <…> Never Smiles or Looks You in the Face,” Suppression of the Rebellion of Slave Traders in Shaka, Plans to Eliminate Slave Trade in Darfur, Gordon’s Attempts to Manage Sudan’s Financial Deficit, a Slave Woman Sneaking into His Tent at Night, Gordon Suffering from “the Plague of Egypt, Boils” and a Scorpion Bite, &c.; One Letter Being Supplemented with Two Original Gordon’s Manuscripts; WITH: an Original Autograph Letter Signed to Col. Nugent by His Friend, Retired Royal Engineers Major-General George Wrottesley (1882). Gordon’s nine ALS: “Massowah,” “Kartoum”, “Edowa, Darfur, en route to Shaka,” “Massawa”, “en route to Suez”, 28 December 1877 - 14 December 1879.
Interesting Album with 233 Original Mounted and Loosely Inserted Gelatin Silver Photos, Including 112 Images of Bermuda, Showing St. George’s (St. Peter’s Church and Clock Tower, Salvation Army Church, Stewart Hall, Harbour, Streets), Hamilton (Princess Hotel, Wharf), Private Residences, Roads, Local People, &c.; The Album is Titled: Bermuda. 1906. Ca. 1900s.
[Stephens, George John Frederick] (1873-1966). Historically Significant Extensive Archive of an Early Klondike Gold Miner and Enthusiast Photographer, George Stephens; the Archive includes Over 220 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and Twenty-Six Amateur Real Photo Postcards, Showing the Site, Premises and Operations on the No. 11 Mining Camp on Eureka Creek (where Stephens was a Partner), His Business Partner and Klondike Pioneer Charles Fraser Hill and Fellow Miners (Martin Pekoe, John Martin, Geo. A. Philbrook, Albert McDonald, Ove Knudsen, Jonas Smith, Gus Wikstrom, Edward Lund and Many Others); Other Mining Camps in the Klondike Goldfields and Surrounding Scenery, Klondike Mines Railway, Dawson City, the Town of Grand Forks (Demolished in 1921), Indian River Bridge, Fishing and Hunting Scenes, &c.; With Two Business Cards of Charles Hill, Period Newspaper Clippings and Ephemera. Ca. 1900s. – early 1920s.
[Ezra, Alfred] (1872-1955). Album with 78 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Mostly Central Asia, Taken During an Overland Travel from India to England and Showing Srinagar (Khanqah-e-Moula Mosque, Hindu Raghunath Temple, Sher Garhi Palace), Kashgar (Afaq Khoja Mausoleum), Fort Verny (Almaty), Pamir Mountains, Scenes of the Party Crossing Mountains and Rivers, Portraits of Central Asian Tribesmen, a Chinese Elder, Criminals with Their Heads Locked in Pillories, Street and Market Scenes, &c. Ca. 1904.
Collection of 79 Loose Original and Studio Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Beijing, Including the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Great Wall of China, Summer Palace (Marble Boat), Yonghe Temple, the Beijing Guozijian, Beijing City Fortifications, Miaoying Temple, Zhenjue Temple, Beihai Park (Nine-Dragon Wall), Peking Union Medical College, Street Scenes, and Portraits of Vendors, etc. Ca. 1946-1947.
Historically Significant Original Manuscript Logbook, Recording the First Voyage of a New England East Indiaman “America” from New York to Macao and Back in June 1809 – June 1810, Including Notes on the Trade with the Natives of the “Bally Town” (Eastern Lombok, Indonesia) and Audience with the Local “King,” Navigation in the Western Pacific Ocean and Sighting of an “island I did not Find Laid Down in any Chart,” Observation of Two Large Comets in the Indian Ocean “the Blare of Which Lasted Nearly 5 Minutes,” Entries on Endured Storms, Encountered Vessels, a Fight on Board, a Crew Member Falling Overboard, &c. 24 June 1809 – 9 June 1810.
Fauvel, Albert-Auguste (1851-1909). [A Map of] Shangdong Sheng di li quan tu = Province du Shantung, Chine. Par A.A. Fauvel [Shantung Province China. By A.A. Fauvel]. Paris: Lanée, Éditeur Géographe, [1876].
[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.
Historically Significant Archive of Over Fifty Original Manuscripts and Period Copies, Merchants’ Receipts, Two Rare Printed Caribbean Broadsides and an Autograph Letter Signed, Documenting Trade Voyages of Canadian-Built Wooden Schooner "Lima," Manned and Commanded by Americans, from New York to St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, Mostly Focusing on its Damage during a Storm in the Caribbean in September-October 1865 and Subsequent Auction Sale in St. Thomas. New York, St. Thomas (Danish West Indies), Kingston (Jamaica), ca. 1865 – early 1866.
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.
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.
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.
Brugsch, Heinrich Ferdinand Karl/ Brugsch-Pasha (1827-1894). Historically Significant, Extensive Archive of a Famous German Egyptologist, Heinrich Brugsch, with Seven Original Manuscripts, Including “Les Nomes de la Haute-Egypte,” and “Documents Relatifs au Nom des Hébreux,” Two Extensively Annotated Manuscripts with Explanations and Commentaries on Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Manuscript Materials on the Early History of Ancient Egypt, Manuscript “Handbuch fur Allgemeinen Beredungen” (dated “Cairo, v. 27 September 1864”); One Manuscript on Assyrian Cuneiforms; an Offprint of Brugsch’s Article from “Zeitschrift für Stenographie und Orthographie” (1864); an Autograph Letter from an Alexandria Lawyer F. von Dumreicher Regarding the State of Affairs of Brugsch’s Deceased Son (March 1894, with the Original Envelope), a Telegram from Brugsch’s Brother Emile (Cairo, February 1894), Pencil Drawings of the Heliopolis Temple Plan and Dendera Zodiac Bas-Relief, &c. Ca. 1860s-1890s.
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].
Historically Significant Album with 132 Original Gelatin Silver Amateur and Studio Photographs, Taken and Collected by a Serviceman of the Yokohama Headquarters of the Eighth U.S. Army, Showing U.S. Military Camp and Headquarters in Yokohama, the Compiler and His Fellow Servicemen, Japanese People and Girls in Western Clothes, Streets and Sites of Yokohama and Tokyo, Scenes of Atomic Destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, &c.; With: An Original Blue Cloth "Air Police" Armband. Ca. 1945 – late 1940s.
[Goetzman, Henry Jacob] (1864 – after 1904); Larss & Duclos (fl. ca. 1899-1904); Cantwell, George (fl. ca. 1898-1920); Hegg, Eric A. (1867-1947) & Others. Historically Significant Album with 87 Rare Original Gelatin Silver Studio and Amateur Photographs of Klondike and Yukon Territory Taken During and Shortly After the Klondike Gold Rush and Showing Dawson City, &c. Ca. 1898-1900s.
Historically Significant Extensive Collection of Five Albums, and Loose Gelatin Silver Photos (altogether over 680 Images), Taken and Collected by U.S. Military Men During Their Service in the Korean War and Showing Military Actions, Seoul after its Capture by the UN Forces in September 1950, Service on the Border with North Korea during the Stalemate (Chuncheon, Kapyong Headquarters, Kumhwa), a Visit of South Korean President Syngman Rhee to the Positions in Kumhwa, American Military Bases and Field Camps, Everyday Life of American Soldiers, Operations and Activities of the U.S. Air Force in Korea and Japan, Hardships of Korean Civilians, Views of Seoul, Busan, South Korean Towns, Villages and Countryside, Portraits of Families, Peasants, Artisans, &c. Ca. 1950s.
Graham Photo Company. Album with 36 Original Gelatin Silver Studio Photographs, Showing Los Angeles (Figueroa Street, a Street in St. James Park, House of Harrison Gray Otis), Pasadena (Orange Grove Avenue, Raymond Hotel, Mansions of William C. Stuart and Charles Richardson), Arcadia (Baldwin’s Ranch), Altadena (House of Colonel George G. Green), Redlands (Brookside Avenue, House of Albert C. Burrage), Riverside (Magnolia Avenue), San Gabriel, a Portrait of Actress Helena Modjeska in her “Arden Forest” House near Silverado, a Scene at an Ostrich Farm, &c. Ca. 1900s.
Historically Significant Album with 77 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of French Colonial Madagascar, Showing Antananarivo (Royal Palace, Andafiavaratra Palace, St. Lawrence Anglican Cathedral Ambohimanoro, Silver Palace, Andohalo/Jean Laborde Square, &c.), Portraits of Queen Ranavalona III, Prime Minister Rainilaiarivony, General Gallieni and His Staff, General Théophile Pennequin and Queen Binao of the Sakalava People, Numerous Settlements and Sites Across the Island (Antsahavola, Ambohimanga, Tsinjoarivo, Mandraka Falls, Analamazaotra, Maromby, Mahatsara, Fianarantsoa, Tamatave/Toamasina, Ile Sainte Marie/Nosy Boraha, Maroantsetra, Vohemar, Diego-Suarez/Antsiranana, Nossi-Be/Nosy Be, Antongombato, Majunga/Mahajanga, Fort-Dauphin/Taolagnaro, Farafangana, Mananjary, & Others), Scenes of French Weddings and Parties, Portraits of Indigenous Noblemen, Workers, Dancers, Musicians, Warriors, &c. Ca. 1895 – early 1900s.
McCrackan, Rev. John Henry (1856-1906); [Rondthaler, Rev. Edward, Bishop] (1842-1931). Historically Significant Journal with 59 Original Albumen Snapshot Photographs, Nine Printed Postcards, and Over a Dozen Specimens of Dried Flowers and Plants, Illustrating a Travel of an American Episcopal Clergyman John McCrackan and a Moravian Pastor from North Carolina Edward Rondthaler around Palestine in April – May 1889.
[Whitaker, Ewen Adar] (1922-2016). Historically Significant Collection of ca. 409 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Moon (Views from Space, Closer Images of the Lunar Surface and Craters), Taken by Several NASA Spacecrafts - Ranger VII (1964), Surveyor I (1965), Ranger VIII ad IX (1965), Lunar Orbiter III and IV (1967), and by Apollo 15 Mission (1971). Ca. 1960s – 1970s.
Humphrys, George, Esq. (ca. 1802-1873); Kebbell, John (1810-1879); Briggs, Mary Jane (1811-1893); Broughton, Bryan Sneyd Herbert (ca. 1838-1862), & Others. Historically Significant Archive of ca. 150 Documents, Including Over 80 Original Autograph Letters Signed (with Thirteen Original Envelopes), 50 Period Copies or Drafts of Original Letters, ca. 20 Financial Documents and a Deed of Land Purchase, Regarding the Pastoral Runs in the Onahau Bay (Queen Charlotte Sound) and Pelorus Sound in the Marlborough Province of New Zealand’s South Island. Wellington, Onahau Bay, Nelson, Picton, Christchurch, Suffolk House (Cheltenham, England), Liverpool & others, ca. 1860-1872.
[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.
[Connor, John Richard, Colonel, Royal Pakistan Engineers, CBE] (1908-1970). Historically Significant Private Archive of Three Albums with ca. 870 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Seven Large Loose Photos and Seven Documents, From the Estate of the First Commandant of the Royal Pakistan Engineers, With Interesting Images of the Royal Pakistan Engineer Centres and Traning Facilities in Sialkot and Risalpur, Scenes from Visits and Inspecitons by Government Officials and Military Commanders, Numerous Portraits of Members of Pakistan Engineers’ Athletic Teams, Scenes from Athletic Competitions, “Olympic Games Trials, 1956,” “Empire and Commonwealth Games 1958,” Views of Attock, Tota Khan, Chakdara, Kund, Torbela, Kaghan Valley &c.; The Documents Include Two “Grants” for Connors’ awards of the Order of the British Empire (signed by King George VI and later Queen Elizabeth II), and Two Farewell Addresses from the Training Centre of the Royal Pakistan Engineers in Risalpur. Ca. 1940s – 1960s.
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 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.
[Remarkable Primary Source on 17th Century Russian-Western European Relations] Relatione d’Alcuni Costumi de’Sig.i Ambasc. Moscoviti, che ora si trovano in Livorno per passare all’Ambasciata di Venezia [Autograph Letter by an Anonymous Author from Livorno Witnessing the Muscovite Embassy to Venice (1656-1657) and Containing Vivid Observations and Remarks About Russians]. Livorno, ca. 1656.
Historically Significant Album with 128 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and 17 Printed Postcards Taken during a Voyage to German New Guinea, German Samoa and Fiji, Showing Settlements and Papuan People of the Bismark Archipelago, Ceremony of Hoisting German Imperial Flag in Samoa, the First Governor of German Samoa Wilhelm Solf, Paramount Chief of German Samoa Mata’afa Josefo, Wreck of SMS “Adler” in Apia Harbour, Native Samoans, German Colonial Residents, Samoan, Papuana dn Fijian Warriors, Views of Banda Islands, &c. Ca. 1900s.
[Eaton, Minnie Emily] (1866-1954). Historically Significant Extensive Archive of a Noted American Christian Missionary (United Brethren in Christ) in Sierra Leone, Containing 180 Loose Original Well-Annotated Gelatin Silver Photos and 50 Real Photo and Printed Postcards, Showing Missionary Stations, Churches, Hospitals and Schools in Freetown, Moyamba, Taiama, Rotifunk, Shenge, and Bonthe, “U.B.C. Roruks Parsonage,” Churches in Rembee and Bendu, Portraits of American and Native Missionaries, Sierra Leone School Children and Students of U.B.C. Institutions, Chiefs, Families, People in Traditional Costumes, &c. WITH: Rare Eaton’s Brochure with the Translation of Bible Verses into Mende Language “A Ngewo Lato”; WITH: Fifteen Printed Postcards of French Senegal; WITH: 36 Real Photo and Printed Postcards and 40 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Jerusalem and Palestine, Taken and Collected during Eaton’s Pilgrimages in 1929 and 1934-35. Ca. 1910s-1930s.
[Hall, Sir John KCB] (1795-1866), Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, Cape of Good Hope (1847-1851). Archive of Twenty-Eight Original Autograph Letters Related to Sir John Hall’s Medical Service in South Africa, Including Twenty-Two ALS from Hall to His Wife (with Seven Original Envelopes), Reporting about the Events of the Eighth Xhosa or Cape Frontier War (1851-53); Two ALS to Hall by His Superior - Director-General of the Army Medical Service Sir James MacGrigor, and Four ALS to Mrs. Hall by Various Correspondents, Detailing on Hall’s Service in South Africa and Crimea. Hall’s letters: Cape Town & Wenburg [Winburg, Free State], 27 July - 9 September 1848 and King William’s Town [Qonce, Eastern Cape] and Grahamstown [Makhanda, Eastern Cape], 18 January – 5 July 1851.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
Weatherley, Captain Cecil Poulett (1860-1932). Historically Significant Content-Rich Original Manuscript Notebook Documenting the Exploration and Survey of Lake Bangweulu in British Central Africa (Soon to Become North-Eastern Rhodesia, Now – Zambia), With Detailed Notes on the Local Chiefs, Customs, Methods and Styles of Tattoos, Teeth Filing and Its Negative Impact on the Teeth Health, &c., Illustrated with Over Forty Pencil and Watercolour Maps and Sketches of the Lake Shores, Islands, Marshes, the Course of the Luapula River, Native Hairstyles, &c. Ca. 1898-1899.