Photos and Postcards

JPC 181

Official photo album of the Rome-Tokyo flight of 1920 by Tenente A. Ferrarin. This album covers the stopover in Shanghai and is loaded with numerous news articles and letters regarding the flight but more so the attempt by Italian G. A. Bena to hold an international exhibition in Shanghai. Interesting views expressed concerning the need to increase Western understanding of the East, and the reationale for a fair in Shanghai. 9 photos, 3 letters (2 by Bena and 1 by G.C. Howard, US Trade Commissioner), 2 news articles and a membership card in the Reale Unione Nationale Aeronautica of Italian pilot Michelangelo Verrelli, who may have owned the album. Rare. M

Price: $580.00

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JPC 143JPC 143Photo album of China and Japan, around the time of the First Sino-Japanese War, ending in 1895. Shown are life in China, churches, Manchu troops on horseback, Chinese sentry, Chinese market, Japanese soldiers and dignitaries, Japanese tennis club, many individual portraits. No captions. A rare find spanning both China and Japan. 107 photos, none missing. Boards are separating. M

Price: $3000.00

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Photo album from Blanche Potter (1864-1942, the daughter of famed New York Congressman and author of the National Banking Act, Orlando Potter (1823-1894). After her father died she inherited a large fortune and she spent most of her time travelling. This photo album is numbered 43. It is professionally laid out, dated and well captioned. Her trip starts out in Mandalay, Burma. Photos from the MacGregor timber yard, the Shwe Dagon pagoda in Mrauk U, Rangoon, Penang, street scenes in Singapore, towns in Indonesia, Jakarta, Bromo volcano, Batavia, Sourabaya, Pourabaya, Hong Kong, street scenes of Canton, nice wide-angled lens view of Canton, Pearl River, different temples in Canton, different photos of Macao (including ‘making American firecrackers Macao’), interesting views of Kowloon, waiting in quarantine in Nagasaki Harbor, she visits an Export Exposition Fair in Kobe, nice wide-angled view of temple grounds in Osaka. 160 photos in all, from a high quality camera. M

Price: $2100.00

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Interesting photo album of China in 1904 by a sailor aboard the HMS King Alfred. Rare photo of British and Chinese soccer teams, opium dens, steet procession, Chinese wedding, Shanghai, British naval guns at Hong Kong. 34 photos, along with some news articles in English and in Chinese, and a business card for a Hong Kong washerwoman

Price: $490.00

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Photo collection of the British army in Shanghai, 1927-1928. Several people mentioned by name. Photos of a rugby match between a Welsh Regiment and the Coldstream Guards. Barracks life of the 8th platoon of the Coldstream Guards, photographed with a Chinese marine. 14 photos, all described on back. N

Price: $300.00

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