Photos and Postcards

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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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Collection of 6 German postcards and photos taken during or after the Boxer Rebellion. M

Price: $150.00

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Collection of three postcards on Chinese actors

Price: $75.00

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Collection of 18 vintage postcards on China, mostly Peking. M

Price: $450.00

Hong Kong, c1955CPPC003Hong Kong, c1955CPPC003

 

Collection of 16 photos of Hong Kong, all from the same person, c1955. M

Price: $250.00

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Complete collection of 12 cards telling the story of rice cultivation through to the production and use of starch, by L. Amidon Remy. MB

Price: $150.00

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Collection of 22 photographic postcards of Hong Kong taken before World War 2. M

Price: $500.00

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Collection of 48 photographic images of the Boxer Rebellion and 1904 Russo-Japanese War by Ogdens Cigarettes. Chinese missionary interest, Hong Kong, Tiensin, various personalities. M

Price: $550.00

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