Title: Album of photographs of Chinese scenes and people Author: Place: China Publisher: Date: c.1910 Description: With 164 gelatin silver photographs, mounted or tipped to black album leaves; each with printed description in Japanese tipped to the same leaf. Images approx. 10.5x15 cm (4½x6"); album is 22x30 cm (8¾x11"), black cloth covers, string ties. Exceptional photograph album of China at the start of the 20th century, as the old regime was fading and revolution was just around the corner. Includes views of street artists, soldiers, villages, gorges, a sedan chair carried by two mules, city street scenes, farmers, a map smoking an opium pipe, boats and rafts on rivers, Buddhist statues and carvings, a street barber, terraced rice paddies, and more. Lot Amendments Condition: Minor fading to some images, one photograph and its caption removed, anther torn, a few cornes chipped; very good. Item number: 269794
Title: Album of photographs of Chinese scenes and people Author: Place: China Publisher: Date: c.1910 Description: With 164 gelatin silver photographs, mounted or tipped to black album leaves; each with printed description in Japanese tipped to the same leaf. Images approx. 10.5x15 cm (4½x6"); album is 22x30 cm (8¾x11"), black cloth covers, string ties. Exceptional photograph album of China at the start of the 20th century, as the old regime was fading and revolution was just around the corner. Includes views of street artists, soldiers, villages, gorges, a sedan chair carried by two mules, city street scenes, farmers, a map smoking an opium pipe, boats and rafts on rivers, Buddhist statues and carvings, a street barber, terraced rice paddies, and more. Lot Amendments Condition: Minor fading to some images, one photograph and its caption removed, anther torn, a few cornes chipped; very good. Item number: 269794
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