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