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Around the World. Splendid collection of over

Currency:USD Category:Antiques Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 250.00 USD
Around the World. Splendid collection of over
Around the World. Splendid collection of over 95 original silverprint photographs taken on a varied trip around the world c. 1900, principally Japan, together with Burma, China, India, Ceylon, Hawaii, Greece, and Lapland. Some identified in contemporary pencil on versos. Remarkable for the superior choice of subjects, composition, sharpness, contrast, and detail; some photos are moderately artistic, others have a photojournalistic quality. Most are highly pleasing in content. The camera used was a fine one. Most about 3 x 5 1/4 to 3 1/2 x 5 3/4 . Including highly ornamental temples, houses on stilts, a street in Japan ("Sugishima - Bicycle Repairer"), interesting variety of wheeled vehicles (none motorized) including different types of sedan chairs with bearers, rickshaws, oxcarts; one of the American women "in a Burmese costume. She is holding one of the huge cheroots that the women of Burma smoke. Beside Amy is a little Burmese woman of the poorer sort." Concluding with dramatic views of Hotel del Coronado and Hotel Glenwood, Riverside (Calif.?). A few with edge darkening or creases, else almost all fine or better. In modern pocket pages.