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Photographer: R. Lenz , Platé, Emil Eisenhofer as well as Bangkok and Tsingtau studios and unknown. Collection of photographs and various written documents from the estate of the German diplomat and pharmacist Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Rexhausen (1868-1928) in Siam. Circa 1900-1911. Circa 200 albumen, gelatin silver, platinum and collodion paper prints. Various sizes between 22 x 26 cm, 12 x 16,5 cm and 6 x 8 cm. Some mounted to board, some annotated in ink/pencil in German below image on the mount or on verso. This collection offers an extensive documentation of the German pharmacist Georg Rexhausen's life in Bangkok where he lived as of 1905. In 1912 Rexhausen became the director of the Royal Siamese Government Pharmacy in Bangkok and the State pharmaceutical laboratory. His military rank was First lieutenant. At the outbreak of war in 1914 he was summoned to Tsintau as lieutenant general, but only reached Shanghai and returned to Bangkok towards the end of the year. Due to the declaration of war of the Siamese government on July 22, 1917 his contract was dissolved and his property in Siam was confiscated, as can be seen from some of the numerous documents in this collection. In 1921, after the end of the war, he opened a pharmacy in Berlin at Bayerischer Platz, which still exists today. One photo is by the railway engineer Emil Eisenhofer (1879-1962) and the group also includes some views of Ceylon. – Some with slight traces of use, many in good condition.