Hawai

1922 · 214040 — circa1922. Photograph album includes 96 photographs. The images are laid down on 28 pages. 30 show Japanese scenes or subjects 30 of Hawaii 4 of San Francisco 7 of Los Angeles 3 of Chicago 7 of New York 14 of Canada and a final quite artistic image of clouds at sunset or sunrise. Many are original silver gelatin privately taken photographs while some are postcards or commercially produced. Each photograph is neatly captioned in ink in English. The name I.B. Jones dated 1922 is neatly written in ink inside the upper cover. The cloth covered album is largely missing the morocco covering at the corners and along the spine and there is a gouge in the upper board but the binding is still sound. Top edge gilt. The photographs show some occasional silvering or fading but are overall in good to very good condition. 25 x 34cm. The Japanese photographs in this album were taken mainly in the Tokyo-Yokohama area and include some nice images of people and street scenes taken in Yokohama. . hardcover