(ASIA) Album with 42 scarce photographs of China and Japan, including images of Peking (18), Yokohama, Tokyo, and Shanghai, among others, including landscapes, temples, street scenes, and portraits by Vagn Aagesen (sp?). Silver bromide prints, each approximately 5 3/4x7 1/2 inches (14.6x19.1 cm.), and the reverse, each mounted recto only, with a caption, in white ink, below the image; first page detached. Small oblong 4to-sized black album with twin-bolt binding, worn; with an inscription and date, also in white ink, on the inside front cover, and with a handwritten note, in pencil, laid in at the rear. 1919
From a Private West Coast Collection. There are 26 images of China in this album, and 7 of Japan. The photographer is possibly Van Aagesen, who may have given the album to one Mr. Christoffersen as a going away gift. Christoffersen was a secretary of the East India Company and Aagesen a lawyer, possibly for the company, which was Danish. The dedication in front is by Aagesen.
