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Historically Interesting Collection of Two Private Albums with 112 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Chinese Far East Including Mukden Badong and Yingkou complied by Russian officers traveling to Beijing and the Surrounding Areas Showing Russian Historical Mission and the Russian Orthodox Church on the Bell Tower Rockefeller Medical College Great Wall and other landmarks. Сa. 1890s-1910s.

réf. FRE25Oblong Quarto album ca. 15x19 cm. 12 card-stock leaves. Period black lacquered boards with elaborate inlaid motifs. 39 photographs from 75x7 cm to 9x135 cm. Almost all photos are captured in pre-revolutionary Russian. Front board of the album is detachable. Few photos faded rear cover slightly scuffed. otherwise good. Octavo album ca. 215x145 cm. 47 leaves 23 blank. Period green cloth binding. 73 photographs from 55x85 to 165x115 cm. Approximately half of the photos are captioned in Russian. The album is signed ’Sophie Stcherbakof. 26/1/1896 on the half-title’ the next page includes a deduction leaf from Alexei Fedorovich Vedernikov to Maria Fyodorovich and Nikolay Smirnov who got married on 26th of January 1896 in Verny now - Alma-Ata Kazakhstan next to the dedication is a song Vedernikov sang at their wedding on which he was the best man. Also album includes three pasted postcards a collage with three cloth stripes red-blue and white and a praise for ‘matouchka Rossia’ in mix of French and latinized Russian dated 1893 and a red piece of paper with printed in Chinese ‘Badong’ for the name of Badong province and three geographical names from the province in Russian. Few photos are faded and with tears but overall in good condition. The albums are coming from the families of the Russian officers who served in China Central Asia and the Far East in the last two decades of the existence of the Russian Empire. The album share provenance and have belonged together in the collection we acquired them from although it is unclear if the people on the photos are related. The first album is likely complied by lieutenant S.E.Bocharov of the South Manchurian Detachment of the Russian Army. This detachment operated in the Far East until the formation of the Manchurian Army in 1904 at the outset of the Russo-Japanese War. Its roots trace back to late summer and early autumn of 1901 when Russian troops in Northern Manchuria organized and executed operations to capture the last remaining leaders of the hunhuz movement who were still at large. The detachment was commanded by Lieutenant General Tserpitsky. The outcome of the detachment's operations was the capture of the Chinese General Sheu and the surrender of another hunhuz chieftain Fulango. In August 1901 Lieutenant General Tserpitsky relinquished command of the South Manchurian Detachment to Major General Fleischer who had previously commanded it at the beginning of the campaign during the advance on Haicheng. The creation of this album likely dates to this specific period; the photographs depict the detachment's headquarters in Mukden officers and their families a steam locomotive on the railway the Liaohe River in Yingkou a panoramic view of Yingkou and a barracks building under construction. The album also contains two studio photographs of Nagasaki—including a hand-colored image of the customs house—as well as two Japanese studio genre scenes. Individuals mentioned in the album include: Convoy Commander Anisimov Senior Adjutant Vlasenko Officer for Special Duties Vutman Colonel Glinsky and his wife Shura Glinskaya and Lieutenant Vlasenko. The second album is a keepsake album kept by Sophia Sherbakova Ð¡Ð¾Ñ„Ð¸Ñ Щербакова. The album starts in Kazakhstan then we see the couple vacating in Crimea Zeleny Mys and visiting Niagara Falls and New York. The second half of the album is dedicated to their life in China and Siberia: it starts with the street panorama in Badong an image of two Russian officers next to a buddhist temple group of four Russians on the horse-changing station the image of the house with a caption ‘our flat’ a group of Cossacks next to an entrance into a town street and nature views. The final section of the album shows Sophia in Irkutsk in 1914-1916 with one photo captured ‘Kazan’. Overall an interesting collection of photos of pre-1917 Russian activities in the Far East which are rare on the market. hardcover

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Historically Significant Archive of 424 Original Photographs and Negatives Documenting Republican-Era China Compiled by an Italian Resident Most Likely an Employee of the Chino-Italian Bank Shanghai and Tianjin. Ca. 1923–1926.

réf. FRE47The collection comprises 207 glass negatives 161 sheet-film negatives preserved in 32 contemporary negative boxes 33 original silver gelatin photographs and 23 sequential newsreel frames together documenting urban life foreign concessions political unrest transportation military activity rural society and the aftermath of the devastating Shanghai typhoon of 1926. The negatives are housed in contemporary photographic boxes manufactured in London and in Rome. One of the boxes bears a contemporary Chinese inscription reading 风景照片 "Landscape Photographs " while another carries a handwritten notation mentioning the Chino-Italian Bank Huayi Yinhang together with the partially legible European name "G. Perez " strongly suggesting that the archive belonged to or was compiled by an Italian associated with the bank during his residence in China. The collection appears to have been assembled between approximately 1923 and 1926 the period during which the compiler was active in China. Most of the negatives were almost certainly exposed by the compiler himself while a smaller group—particularly several dozen slightly softer copy negatives depicting well-known late Qing punishment scenes—were likely reproduced from earlier photographs or commercially available prints and incorporated into the archive. Such compilation was common among professional photographers journalists and foreign residents in China during the Republican period. The archive documents both the international settlements and the Chinese cities surrounding them. Shanghai is represented by numerous views of the Bund and waterfront the construction of the North China Daily News Building Kiangse Road and other streets together with more than thirty photographs recording the widespread destruction caused by the Shanghai Typhoon of 1926 including collapsed buildings wrecked vessels damaged railway equipment debris-strewn streets and emergency conditions in the city. These negatives clearly dated 6th of July 1926Tianjin is documented through views of the Italian Concession Municipal Council Building the British General Consulate Piazza Regina Elena panoramic views of the city and a remarkable series depicting groups of Italian residents posing with local Chinese inhabitants and railway workers. Additional photographs depict the Nanjing City Wall river traffic traditional passenger boats rural villages with vernacular courtyard farmhouses agricultural labour grain harvesting shrine interiors and everyday life in the Chinese countryside. Around two dozen photos depict sights in Beijing and the Great Wall another 10 photos show Beijing Ancient Observatory and its instruments on the rooftop terrace. Of particular historical significance are photographs recording the political tensions of Republican China. These include contemporary images of Chinese demonstrations walls covered with political slogans and hand-painted inscriptions and Chinese troops marching through the streets apparently in preparation for or during the suppression of protests. The archive also contains photographs of North Chinese irregulars or bandits armed with rifles military units railway stations—including a sequence from Lingcheng Station possibly connected with the widely reported Lincheng railway incident—and numerous scenes illustrating the growing military presence in North China during the turbulent years preceding the Northern Expedition. A separate group comprises approximately three dozen copy negatives reproducing well-known photographs of late Qing judicial punishments dating originally from the 1890s through the final years of the Qing dynasty. Among them are views associated with the Jiangnan Examination Hall and other widely circulated images illustrating penal practices that had attracted considerable attention in contemporary European publications. Their slightly softer appearance compared with the rest of the archive suggests that they were copied from earlier photographic prints or negatives rather than exposed directly by the compiler reflecting the common practice of incorporating historically significant documentary images into personal photographic collections. The presence of the Chino-Italian Bank annotation together with the concentration of photographs relating to the Italian community in Tianjin and Shanghai strongly suggests that the compiler was closely connected with the Italian commercial presence in Republican China. Rather than functioning solely as a photographer he appears to have assembled a comprehensive visual record of contemporary China combining his own documentary photographs with acquired negatives illustrating subjects of historical or journalistic interest. The result is an unusually coherent archive documenting China during the politically volatile years immediately preceding the Northern Expedition viewed through the perspective of a member of the small Italian expatriate community active in the country's treaty ports. unknown

Globus Rare Books & Archives · États-Unis6 500,00 $US≈ 5 795,81 €

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