(CHINA)Album entitled Views of the Chinese Eastern Railway c

Sale 1907 - Lot 132

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000

(CHINA)
Album entitled "Views of the Chinese Eastern Railway" containing 74 photographs by an accomplished amateur, 9 of which are hand-colored, comprising interior and exterior images of a "luxe" passenger train; train stations along the route; scenic views of the tracks, bridges and tunnels; piers and storage facilities; street scenes and ethnographic views of people from small villages near Harbin; a grisly photograph of the bodiless heads of executed "Hunghuzes"; and views of Russian and European travellers at various "Health-stations" and sanatoriums, playing croquet and tennis or just resting in the scenic atmosphere. Silver prints, 3 1/2x5 to 7 1/2x10 1/2 inches or the reverse, each with a printed caption label affixed to the mount; mounted one to 4 per page recto only. Oblong folio, gilt-lettered red leather, worn and dampstained. 1910s-20s

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The Chinese Eastern Railway was constructed in Manchuria by the Russians in the late 19th Century as an extension of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. The Russians retained complete or partial control of the Railway through 1953, except for a brief period in the late 1920s when the Chinese seized control. The Russian influence along the route is evident in the Cyrillic signage that appears throughout these photographs.