Lot 73
Japan, China, The Philippines, Indonesia and Canada
Two photograph albums, 1925-1926
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
The first entitled ‘T.S.S. California World Cruise Jan-May 1925’ and signed J. Esmond-Bell, containing 112 photographs from a cruise, commencing in Kobe, Japan, in March 1925 with photographs of scenery, local people and tourists, moving onto Tokyo and Nara, before heading to China with photographs including street scenes of Shanghai, proceeding on to the Philippines, Java, Singapore, Calcutta, Darjeeling and Colombo, Japanese-style album with patterned cloth covers;
The second untitled, commencing in Canada, before moving to Japan with scenes of Osaka, Tokyo, Kyoto and others, then moving to China (on board the S.S. Empress Canada), with various views of scenes and locals in Shanghai and Hong Kong, then on to Batavia (Jakarta) and Java, with various views of local people working, paper-covered album (2)