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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CHINA) Album containing 210 accomplished photographs of shipbuilding in Shanghai, and a holiday voyage, with many colorful photographs depicting the S.S. Mei Ton, in addition to docks, harbors, dry harbors, river scenes, construction views, flag-draped vessels, launches, and christenings, including dramatic views of the foredeck of "a lighter going through a rapid," and picturesque prints of the Wushon and Kwei Fu Gorges, views around Wanhsien, along the Grand Canal and its locks, and interiors of an engine room. Silver prints, 3x5 1/4 to 4 1/2x6 1/2 inches (7.6x13.3 to 11.4x16.5 cm.), several with caption information in the negative, and most with handwritten captions, in white ink, on mount recto; mounted one-5 per page. Oblong 4to, leatherette. Circa 1917
With 3 personal and humorous letters to "mama," 2 are handwritten and one is typewritten, in which Robert (the photographer?) and Nell describe details of their travels, including a colorful trip on the Yangtze River, an incident in which they were shot at in Shanghai, plus "a report of participation on the Thibet Road." 1917-25.
