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.
XU, Song = 徐松 (1781-1848). Xiyu shuidao ji: [wu juan] = 西域水道記: 五卷 [Records of the Waterways of the Western Regions (five volumes)]; WITH: Han shu Xi yu zhuan bu zhu: [er juan] = 漢書西域傳補注 : 二卷 [Supplementary Notes to the Book of Han: The Western Regions (two volumes)]; WITH: Xinjiang fu = 新疆賦 [Xinjiang Rhapsody]. Daoguang = 道光 3-9 [ca. 1823-1829].
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.
Rainstrick, J. Historically Important Album with Ninety Original Photographs, Taken by a British Telegraph Department Officer in Transvaal (Modern-Day South Africa) during the Second Boer War, Showing National Scouts Leaving Wonderfontein, African Workers en Route to the Witwatersrand Goldfields, Wounded Soldiers Aboard the Princess Christian Hospital Train, Boer Prisoner About to Be Executed, the Compiler with his Telegraph Colleagues, and Public Celebration of King Edward VII’s Coronation, as well as Individual and Group Portraits of Local Residents and Early Cityscapes of Pretoria (Lord Roberts’ Official Residence, President Kruger’s House, Jewish Synagogue, etc.) and Johannesburg (Train Station, Post Office, Government Buildings, Telephone Tower, etc.); also with ca. Thirty-Six Postcards; titled: ”Album.” Ca. 1899-1906.
Album with Thirty Original Gelatin Silver Photos of the American Methodist Mission Station in Quéssua, Angola; Including Portraits of the Missionaries and their Families (V. Crandall, I. Johnson, Dr. and Mrs. Kremp, Mr. and Mrs. Whitey, F. Bessa, C. Cross, M. Nelson), African Assistants and Locals (Sarah Webba, Carlos, Maravilha, Heraldo, etc.), Views of a Church, Chapel, Boarding School, Playhouse, Grass Huts, etc. Ca. 1948-1962.
[Baegert, Johann Jakob] (1717-1772). Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien: mit einem zweyfachen Anhang falscher Nachrichten. Geschrieben von einem Priester der Gesellschaft Jesu, welcher lang darinn diese letztere Jahr gelebet hat. [News from the American Peninsula California..,] Mannheim: Churfürstl. Hof- und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1773.
Cook, Myra; Lamb, Herman Dwight (1823-1900). Original Autograph Letter Signed by Myra Cook and Herman Dwight Lamb of Big Oak Flat, Tuolumme County, California, Talking About Weather Conditions Over Christmas Holidays, Extended Family, and the Knowles & Maxim Publishing Company. Big Oak Flat, [Tuolumme County, CA], 26 January 1884.
[Scamell, Joseph William] (1874-1955). Interesting Private Archive of Four Original Documents and Four Original Gelatin Silver Photographs from the Estate of a California Pharmacist and Doctor, Joseph William Scamell, Referring to his Practice in San Francisco, Santa Rosa and Marysville, Montana. Ca. 1890s-1900s.
Thompson, William A. (1824-1857). An Interesting Content-Rich Original Autograph Letter Signed by a Sacramento Attorney, William A. Thompson, Addressed to His Mentor and Former Superior, Judge Hon. R.C. Hurd, Talking about Thompson’s Law Practice, Engagement in Land Title Cases, Anticipated Dissolution of the Sutter Land Title, Completion of Sacramento’s Second Courthouse, Local Climate and His Meeting with the Addressee’s Relative, J.W. Hurd, Who Resided in “Gun Valley, El Dorado County”. Sacramento, 30 April 1855.
Beckmann, Conrad. Interesting Autograph Letter Signed by San Francisco Grocer Conrad Beckmann, Talking About a Steamer With a Limit of 400 Illegally Carrying 1300 Passengers to “the New Diggings” (Likely Gold) and Grocer Business, etc. San Francisco, 17 February 1862.
Hughes, W. G. (ca. 1909-2003). Historically Significant Album with 149 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken and Collected by the California-Based Hughes Family, Featuring U.S. Tennis Players Helen Wills, Anna Harper, Gerald Stratford, and Dolf Muehleisen during Various California Tournaments; the Filming of Buster Keaton’s Day Dreams; One of the Earliest Local Kid’s Day Celebrations; Businessman Owen D. Young Delivering the Charter Day Address; the “First Cadillac” of 1923; the Regular Engine between Truckee and Tahoe, etc.; titled: “Photographs.” Ca. 1910s-1930s.
An Interesting Early Letter from a Resident of Osceola (Mo.) to His Father, Discussing Local and Family News, as Well as Efforts and Expenses of Former Local Resident and then California Gold Seeker and Politician, Captain William Waldo during His Operations to Help Starving Gold Prospectors in California. Oseola [Ocseola], Mo, 16 March 1851.
Historically Significant, Attractive Lacquered Album with 128 Original Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photos, Taken by a U.S. Military Medical Officer during His Service in the Sternberg General Hospital in Manila Shortly Before WW2, Showing Hospital Grounds and Associates, Members of the Hospital Basketball Team, U.S. Military Facilities on Corregidor and El Fraile Islands in Manila Bay, Manila and Environs (Intramuros, San Agustin Church, City Cemetery, Nuestra Senora de Gracia Church in Makati), Baguio and Environs, Portraits of Native Filipino Women and Girls; Views of Shanghai Occupied by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese Naval Ships on the Yangtze River, Ruins of Zhabei District, Destroyed during the Battle of Shanghai, U.S. Troops on a “Hike” near Qinhuangdao, &c. Ca. late 1930s.
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].
Trist, Nicholas Phillip (1800-1874). Manuscript Letter Written by US Consul of Havana Nicholas Trist to the Captain General of Cuba, Regarding the Circumstances of the Arrest of the Crew of the American Ship William Engs, Who Committed a Mutiny in the Port of Havana. Havana [Cuba], 2 September 1839.
Badger, William Cogswell, 1st. Lieut., Quartermaster, 6th Infantry Regiment (1826-1897). Collection of Two Historically Significant Official Papers, Compiled by 1st Lieu. William Badger, a Quartermaster of the 6th Infantry, U.S. Army, Who at a Time Served with Lt.-Col. George A. Custer during the Latter’s Commission in the Dakota Territory in the 1870s; the Documents Include: “Abstract of Expenditures at the Standing Rock Cantonment” (December 1875) and “Quarterly Return of Quartermaster’s Stores at Fort Rice” (December 1878). Standing Rock [Cantonment], D.[akota] T.[erritory], December 1875.
Raymond of Peñafort, William of Rennes. Summa de poenitentiae et matrimonio and Apparatus in Summam Raymundi [i.e. Summa on Penance and Marriage with commentary]. [France (Paris?), c.1275-1300].
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.
Historically Important Album with Thirty-Four Original Photographs of Batumi, Taken by a Russian Soldier or his Female Companion in 1905, Showing the Turkish Bazaar with Fruit Sellers, Street Vendors, and Russian Officers on Patrol; Shoemakers Polishing Clients’ Footwear; Local Workers Smoking and Posing for the Camera; and Views of Decked Ships, the Riverfront, the Commercial Harbor, Gardens, Beaches, and Surrounding Areas (including Buknari and Cape Verde); also, with the Photos of Surami and Pyatigorsk; titled: Album. Ca. 1905.
Manuscript Document of a Report on French Defences in the French Colony of Saint-Domingue, Including Fort Dauphin, Cap-Français, the Dependencies of Port-de-Paix, and the West and South Governments, and Recommendations Concerning the King’s Troops. Ca. 1745.
[Sikandar Begum Of Bhopal] (1817-1868; Reign: 1860-68); Canning, Charles, John, 1st Earl Canning (1812-1862), Viceroy of India (1858-1862); Bruce, James, 8th Earl of Elgin & 12th Earl of Kincardine (1811-1863), Viceroy of India (1862-1863). An Office Folder with Two Formal Autograph Letter Signed "Canning" and “Elgin & Kincardine,” Addressed to the Second Female Ruler of the Islamic Principality of Bhopal in Central India, Sikandar Begum, on Account of the Transfer of the Office of Viceroy of India from the Earl of Canning to the Earl of Elgin; Bound with: Seven Leaves of Official Related Period Manuscripts in Urdu, Two Verified as "True Translation" by "Under Sec[retar]y of the Govt. of India in the Foreign Dept.," With a Manuscript Table of Contents, Decorated with a Printed Coat of Arms of the Bhopal State. Ca. early 1860s.
Breese, Samuel (1802-1873); Roby, Joseph (1795-1847). Historically Significant, Content-Rich Original Autograph Letter Signed by a Pioneer Resident and Real Estate Dealer in Bloomington (Muscatine), Iowa, Samuel Breese, Talking about the City Climate, Advantageous Location on the Mississippi River Bend, Recent Sales of Real Estate, Census Results, Recent Intelligence “of the Division of the Tarritory,” His Business Partner Niles Higginbotham, the Perspective of Bloomington Becoming the Seat of the Territorial Government, &c. Bloomington, Iowa Tary. [sic!], 27 June 1838.
Historically Significant Collection of Fourteen Original Albumen Photos, Likely Taken by a Professional Russian Photographer in Mashhad, Iran, in the Late 1890s, Showing Imam Reza Holy Shrine before the 1912 Bombardment, Gawhar-Shad Mosque, British Consulate, Iranian Artillery Barracks, Governor’s Palace, Russian & Cossack Forces, etc.; also, with the Photos of “Tehran” and “New Afghan Gate”. Ca. 1890s.
Sommers, Giorgio (1834-1914, fl. 1857-1888); Rive, Roberto (fl. ca. 1865-1890s); Amodio, Michele (fl. ca. 1850s-1880s). Attractive Keepsake Folder with 59 Large Original Albumen Studio Photographs of Italy, Showing the Architectural Sites, Streets, and Art Pieces from Rome, Florence, Naples, Capri, Amalfi, Pozzuoli, Casamicciola, Sorrento, Herculaneum, Paestum, ect. Ca. 1870s-1880s.
[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.
Historically Important Collection of Seventy-Seven Rare Gelatin Silver Photos and Chromogenic Prints Taken and Collected by an American Serviceman and His Family at Wheelus Air Base in the 1960s, Documenting Local Facilities (Television Station, Barracks, Club, 7272nd Fighter Training Wing Memorial), Military Equipment (Aircraft and Vehicles), a Military Parade, Family Life (Riding Camels, Attending Rodeo, Celebrating New Year), and Pre-Damaged Tripoli, Including the Royal Palace, Bab Hawara Gate, Martyrs’ Square, and the Ruins of Leptis Magna. Ca. 1963-1966.
[Le Roux, Pierre]. Historically Significant Collection of Two Albums with ca. 200 Original Well-Annotated Gelatin Silver Photographs and Two Folders with ca. 140 Original Film Negatives, Taken by a Young French Military Man during His Service in Madagascar in the 1930s; With Interesting Images of Antananarivo, Ambatolampy, Toamasina, Fenerive, Foulpointe, a Sugar Cane Distillery in Mamandrahana, Environs of Antsirabe, French Military Compounds, Camps and Exercises, Portraits of the Compiler, French and African Servicemen, Malagasy Farmers, Shepherds, Families, the Compiler’s Cousin Thérèse Lamiot Who was a Local Head of the Catholic Society of Sisters of Mary Reparatrix, &c. Ca. 1930s.
Historically Important Album with Eighty-Four Original Photos of Colonial Madagascar, Taken by a French Tourist Involved in Vanilla Export and Showing Open-Air Markets of Carpets and Hats, Workers Moving Boxes of Vanilla from a Warehouse to a Truck, Missionary Rosalia Razarinia Ramatoa Departing the Village of L’Imerina, as well as Views of Tananarive, Tamatave, Diego Suarez, Vohemar, Saint-Marie, Mahajanga, Nosy Be, and Ambodiana; also, with the Photos of the Compiler’s Voyage to Madagascar via the Suez Canal. Ca. 1920s.
Slocum, Wilkes Almy (ca. 1824-1848). Original Autograph Letter by Wilkes Slocum, a Boatman Near Vera Cruz, Sharing with “Dear Mother” the Hot News of the Mexican Defeat in the Vera Cruz Battle and Writing about the Minimal Casualties Suffered by the American Forces. Vera Cruz: 29 March 1847.
Collection of Ninety-Four Original Gelatin Silver Stereoview Photographs of Mexico, Showing Chihuahua, Moneterey, Zacatecas, Aguas Calientes, Guanajuato, Guadalajara, Juanacatlan, Mexico City, Santa Anita, Guadalupe, Amecameca, Cholulua, Popocatapetl, Ixtaccihuatl, Orizaba, Cordoba, Omealca, Vera Cruz, Jalapa, Tehuantepec, Aztec villages, Portraits of Natives on the Markets and In Their Trades, Including Native Indian Fair, Strawberry Fields and Farming Activities, Interior of the Local Cathedrals and Houses, Bull-fighting, Calendar Stone and Other Remarkable Objects in Local Museums, Factory Scenes, Scenes at the Cotton Mill, Primary School in Jalapa, Photos Relating To Coffee Production and Extracting Pulque From the Maguey Plant. Ca. 1900.
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.
An Interesting Early Letter from a Settler in Boonville (Likely, in Missouri) Who Was Planning to “Engage in the Drug Business in or near Elgin” (One in Missouri or Possibly Oregon), Telling the Addressee that He is “Extremely Desirous of Having you as a Partner” and Remembering “of Your Intention of Going West with me to Look out a Suitable Place for Business”. Boonville, 8 August 1854.
[Gilmore, J.W.], [Stephens, Adam] (1819-1891), Stephens, Lucinda Berilla (1823-1910, née Gilmore). An Interesting Early Letter to Oregon Pioneers, Adam and Lucinda Stephens (Founders of Hayesville near Salem), from Their Relative in Missouri, with Family News, Discussions about Real Estate and Confessions like “You have been Riting to me to Come to Oregon but I don’t think I ever will come” and “I Think as like as not I will Die in Missouri”. Sulphurlick, Lincoln Co., Mo, 16 [March?] 1853.
Historically Important Album of Twenty-Seven Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Documenting the British Cantonment Town of Abbottabad (in Modern-Day Pakistan) in the Early 1900s, Showing the 25th Mountain Battery Playing Tug of War, Posing with a Ball and Hockey Sticks, Performing Artillery Salvos & Horseback Drills, and Taking Regimental Portraits, including with the Officers from the 22nd and 27th Batteries; British Colonial Architecture (Royal Army Mess, St. Luke’s Church, Officers’ Houses, Abbottabad Club), and General Views of Abottabad; also with a Hand-Drawn Illustration of Various British Cruisers and RIMs, and Early Printed Postcards of Delhi and Akbar; titled: “Photographs.” Ca. 1903-1906.
[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.
Boynton, Judd Emery (1912-1983). Historically Significant Collection of 54 Original Gelatin Silver Amateur Photographs, Taken and Collected by a Berkeley Mountaineer and Photographer, Judd Emery Boynton during His Trips in South America in the 1930s, and Showing La Paz, Tiwanaku Pre-Columbian Archaeological Site (Gate of the Sun, Stairs of Kalasasaya), “the Lost Canyon of Bolivia,” Mt. Huayna Potosi and the Bolivian Andes, “Bolivian Recruits for the War in the Chaco,” Mount Illimani, Andean Plateau, Cuzco, Sacsayhuaman Citadel, Rio Pampas, the Cities of Abancay, Ayacucho and Mejorada, the “Highest Railway Summit in the World,” Panama Canal, General Cemetery of Lima, Basilica and Convent of San Francisco in Quito, Portraits of Native Farmers, a “Gobnador of a Little Pueblo West of the Rio Apurimac in Peru” &c.; WITH: A Printed Advertising Leaflet of Boynton’s Documentary Movie, Titled: “Jungle Trek: A Tale of Glorious Adventure, A Motion Picture in Natural Color”. Ca. 1930s.
Boynton, Judd Emery (1912-1983). Interesting Collection of 27 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken and Collected by a Berkeley Mountaineer and Photographer, Judd Emery Boynton during His Trips in South America in the 1930s, and Showing La Paz, “the Lost Canyon of Bolivia,” Andean Pueblos, Mt. Huayna Potosi, Andean Plateau, A Suspension Bridge, Cuzco, Sacsayhuaman Citadel, Rio Pampas, Mejorada City, Train of the Central of Peru Railway &c.; WITH: A Printed Advertising Leaflet of Boynton’s Documentary Movie, Titled: “Jungle Trek: A Tale of Glorious Adventure, A Motion Picture in Natural Color”. Ca. 1930s.
Historically Significant Album with ca. 88 Photos, And Two Real Postcards of Mostly Philippines, Complied by an American Senior Chief Petty Officer In Service on US Navy Radio Station in Las Baños Showing The Panoramas of The Station, Views From The Top of Recently Constructed Radio Towers, And The Towers Itself, Coconut Rafts in Pagsanjan, Filipino Ferry, Fishing in the Filipino River, Santa Cruz Bridge, Manila, Candle Vendors in Antipolo, Market Scenes, Flooded Streets in Manila, Group Photos of Moro Children, The Excursion of the Nurses From St.Paul’s Hospital to Los Baños (1913), Riza St. in Los Baños, U.S. Ambulance & Signal Corp Camping in Los Baños Laguna, Isuan Factory Hotel, Los Baños Dock, Town Park in Cavite, Water Tower, Photos of 2 American Sailors, Their Wifes and Their Home in Philippines, Local Farmers with their Cattle and Riding Horseback, Taal Basilica, The Ricefields and Views of Philippine Scenery and Towns; Also Showing 7 Views of Radio Station on Tatoosh Island, WA. ca. 1913-1920s.
Johnson, William G. Historically Significant Archive of a British Railway Engineer On His Time Working In Brazil, Including Two Maps (One Hand-Drawn and One Printed), Eight Studio Photographs by Marc Ferrez relate to the Estrada de Ferro Railway Company Trains, Ninety Eight Pages of Diaries and The Extracts from His Trips Around Brazil in Years 1894-1898, Seventeen Pages of Typewritten Summaries of Two of His Trips ‘A Trip To Interior of Bahia’ and ‘A Visit to the Sao Joao Del Rey Gold Mines’, With Author’s Corrections in Texts And Variations Against the Entries in the Diaries as well as Forty Eight Photos of Johnson’s Work and Leisure in Habana, Cuba. Brazil, Habana ca.1895-1906.
[Prevaux, Francis Edward, Reverend, Attributed to] (1822-1860). An Interesting Original Autograph Letter Signed “Frank E. Prevaux,” Written by a Young New England Port Worker (Future Baptist Missionary in San Francisco and Principal of the San Francisco Academy, Rev. F.E. Prevaux), Mentioning His Dining in the “Seamen’s Home” (Possibly, in Providence, Rhode Island), Work in Port, His “Theological Course” and Interactions with “an Old Tar” Who “Has Lately Run Away from a British Man of War, Was in the Late War between England and China and is Pretty Well Scarred Up”. [Likely, Providence, R.I., ca. 1840s].
Middlebrook, J. E. Album with Sixty-One Original Albumen Photographs of Mostly South Africa, Showing Detailed Interior Views of Kimberley and Mines, Sites and Memorials of the Second Boer War, and Lively Street Scenes and Ethnographic Views of Cape Colony (Cape Town, Grahamstown, Graaff-Reinet, Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage, Cradock, King William’s Town, Queenstown, East London), Natal Colony (Natal, Durban, Pietermaritzburg), Orange River Colony (Bloemfontein, Harrismith), and Transvaal Colony (Pretoria, Johannesburg, Jeppestown, and Barberton); also, with Several Photos of Zimbabwe; titled: Photographs. Ca. 1899-1902.
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 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.
Album with 76 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of London Missionary Society Stations in North-Eastern Rhodesia (Zambia); Including Portraits of Missionaries and their Families (W. Draper, H.E. Wareham, Rev. R.S. Wright, Rev. J.A. Ross, Rev. H.C. Nutter, W. Freshwater, B.R. Turner, Rev. W.G. Robertson, Rev. E.H. Clark), British Civil Servants (H.C. Marshall, G.M.E. Leyer, J. McNeil), Views of “Spirit Huts, Mambwe,” “Mrs. McNeil’s Grave, Kawimbe,” Kalambo Falls, Luena River, Lake Malawi, Mount Waller, Mombasa, Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar, Portraits of Maasai, Kikuyu People, &c. Ca. 1900s.