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Interesting Collection of 123 Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of French Congo, Showing a Mining Plant and Settlement of “Compagnie Minière du Congo Français” near Mindouli, the Loukouni River and Its Tributaries (Gorge, Waterfalls, Overhanging Cliffs), Native Villages, French Residents and Congolese Workers, the Interior of a Local Infirmary, &c. Ca. 1930s.
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Historically Significant Album with 171 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken and Collected by a German Doctor, Who Worked for the Bethel Evangelical Mission in the British Tanganyika Territory in the 1930s, Showing Tanga (Monument to Fallen German Soldiers, “Yakobo Ngombe […?], pastor in Tanga”), Mlalo (Church and Guest House), Bumbuli (Hospital, Clinic, Patients, Nurses), Vuga (Mission House and “Pastor Steiss”), Kamachumu (Church Construction and Consecration, Patients and Nurses), Kagera River, Lake Victoria, Bukoba Harbour, Tutsi People, Lupembe (Mission House, German School), Kidugala (Mission House), Ilembula (Synod Meeting in the Lutheran Church), Dar es Salaam, the Compiler Distributing Medicine in a Village, &c. Ca. early 1930s.
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$ 1250.00
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.
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$ 5250.00
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.
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$ 2250.00
Historically Significant Album with 37 Albumen Studio Photographs of the British Colony of Natal in Modern-Day South Africa, Showing Durban (General Views from Berea, original St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, West Street, the Bluff, Durban Bay, Bridges over the Umgeni River), Pietermaritzburg (General View from Fort Napier, Church Street, First Building of the Natal Society Library), Umgeni and Umkomas Rivers, Howick Falls, Pinetown, a Hotel in Verulam, Memorial at the Battle of Majuba Hill, Oxen Wagon Trains, Zulu People, &c. Ca. 1880s.
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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.
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$ 2250.00
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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.
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$ 2250.00
Historically Significant Collection of 82 Loose Original Rare Gelatin Silver Photographs of Niger, Showing a Public Appearance of the Country’s First President Hamani Diori, Agadez Mosque, a WW1 Memorial, a Public Parade, a Guerewol Ceremony, Native Villages and Markets, Local Craftsmen, Cattle Herders, Dancers, Elders, Tuareg Camel Riders, Families and Children, and others. Ca. early 1970s.
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$ 2500.00
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.
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$ 650.00
Interesting Collection of Twelve Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing Native Canoes and a French Steamer in the Harbour of Dakar and Senegalese People Posing in Front of Their Huts. Ca. 1900s.
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Historically Significant Collection of Twenty-Two Mounted Original Albumen Photographs of the Komati River Goldfields, Showing the Gold Mining Town of Steynsdorp/ eMlondozi, Mining Properties of “Comstock, 10-stamp Battery,” “Virginia Reef,” “Wave Reef,” “Ladysmith Camp,” “Umsoli,” “Annie’s Faith,” “Umlaleen,” “Forbes Reef, Swaziland,” Group Portraits Taken during the “Opening of the Umsoli Battery, July 9 ’88,” a Portrait of “Mr. Von Brandis, Mining Commissioner, Steynsdorp, Komati Gold Fields,” &c. Ca. 1880s.
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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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$ 1250.00
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.
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Interesting Collection of Two Albums with 49 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Beach Sand Mining in French West Africa (Possibly for Gold or Heavy Minerals), Showing Native Workers Digging the Sand, Transporting it to the Drying and Processing Plant, and Thence to the Loading Area on the Beach, Where it is Taken by Pirogues and Barges to the Cargo Vessels at Sea. Ca. 1920s-1930.
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[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.
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Interesting Collection of Two Albums with over 260 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken during a Caravan Road Trip Across British Colonies in Southern Africa, Showing Modern-Day South Africa (Cape Town and Environs, Durban, East London, St. Michaels Port St. John’s, Drakensberg Mountains, Kruger National Park, Wyllie’s Poort, Magoebaskloof &c.), Zimbabwe (Customs House in Beitbridge, Shangani Patrol Memorial in the Matobo Hills, Victoria Falls, Great Zimbabwe Ruins, &c.), Zambia (Livingstone Zoo, Road from Lusaka to Fort Jameson/Chipata, Luangwa River), and Malawi (Fort Johnson/Mangochi, Lake Nyasa/Malawi, Mulanje Town and Mountains, “Lyons Lujeri Tea Factory,” Mpatamanga Gorge); WITH: Two Loose Gelatin Silver Photos Showing the Party and their Caravan at Mpatamanga Gorge (Malawi); WITH: a Manuscript Diary, Titled: A Venture into the Sun: “Darkest Africa in Fairest Mood,” M.V.T.; WITH: A Manuscript, Titled:] Victoria Falls, A Humble Expression of it in My Own Words, 1938. Ca. 1937-1939.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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$ 1750.00
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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$ 5750.00
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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.
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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.
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