Oct 02, 2001 - Sale 1907

Sale 1907 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 1,150
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
(CHINA)
Album of approximately 314 photographs of Beijing inhabitants and views of the city including peasants selling their wares in outdoor markets, rickshaws with their patrons, musicians, furniture dealers, children playing in the street; architecture including various views of the Forbidden city, exteriors and interior details of the Temple of Heaven, and the ruins and restored areas of the Summer Palace. Silver prints (with 19 hand-colored prints), 2 1/2x1 1/2 to 3 3/4x5 1/2 inches and the reverse, numbered in the negative, mounted 6 or more per page, recto and verso. Oblong folio, lacking covers, contents loose. 1920s