05-16-201505-16-2015
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2810BBoston
May 16, 2015 11:00 AMCalender
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Album of Photographs

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Auction: Asian Works Of Art - 2810BLocation: BostonDate / Time: May 16, 2015 11:00AM

Description:

Album of Photographs, mostly of Asia, early 20th century, including photographs of the Philippines, Qingdao China, Kobe, Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii, the Panama Canal, and Port au Prince, Haiti, showing street scenes, daily life, and architecture, approximately 190 photographs printed as postcards, most with notes indicating the location, in a leather-bound album with embossed dragon motif, album 11 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.

Provenance: Given to Ella Williams Webb, then through her family.
Estimate $200-300

Some photographs missing, most held in paper corners but some taped, album binding loose.


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Keywords

Photographs, Hawaii, Panama Canal, Honolulu, Kobe, Qingdao, China, Haiti, Japan, Philippines, Ella Williams Webb