Beschreibung:

United States, Burma & Japan. An album containing 90 albumen print views, c. 1880s, including 25 views of Yosemite with Taber credits to lower margins (14 photographs 24 x 19 cm; 11 photographs 19.5 x 12.5 cm), 26 views of Japan (21 x 27 cm) including scenes in Kyoto, Mara, Hodsugawa, Kinkakugi, Rasiyama, etc., mostly temples and rural views, 5 photographs of Burma including a three-part panorama of Mandalay from Mandalay Hill (18.5 x 76 cm) and other views including Shwedagon Pagoda, each 18 x 24 cm; plus 19 further photographs of USA and Canada etc., including Lake Tahoe, Pike's Peak, 3 scenes of Quebec, Montreal and Montmerency by Parks and 6 with initials W.H.J[ackson], 16 x 22 cm and smaller; and 14 amateur photographs of boats and scenes in the Far East, 10 x 12.5 cm, the collection mounted on rectos and versos of stiff card leaves, contemporary boards, both detached and lacking leather coverings (one piece loose with gilt title 'H.J.R. No. 3', spine defective, oblong folio, together with an unrelated contemporary photograph album containing approximately 85 mounted albumen print views of Great Britain, Malta, Paris, Lisbon, Switzerland, Italy, etc., various sizes, many identified in the negative and some with ink captions to mounts, mounted to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves, contemporary morocco, covers detached and backstrip deficient, oblong folio (Quantity: 2) Many of the Taber photographs were probably taken by Carleton Eugene Watkins (1829-1916). The larger ones are identified as A1 The Mariposa Trail; A7 Up the Valley; A26 The Three Brothers; A137 El Capitan; A41 Glacier Point; A24 The Sentinel; A33 Yosemite Falls; A32 Yosemite Falls; A34 Lower Yosemite Falls; A292 Lower Yosemite Falls & Mt Starr King; A62 Grizzly Giant; B1056 Yosemite Valley - Artist Point; B1002 Yosemite Valley - The Domes; B952 Prof. Gray & Dr. Torrey. The smaller Taber albumen prints are: B370 Vernal Falls; B1042 Nevada Falls; B1059 Bridal Veil Falls; B961 Bridal Veil Falls; B968 Upper Yosemite Falls; B387 Mirror Lake Yosemite Valley; B807 Cathedral Rocks; B815 Capitan Reflected; B130 Wawona; B797 Burnt section Mariposa Grove; B831 Grizzly Giant.