Bonhams 1793 : MALAYASIA, KOREA and INDIA Album of good amateur native studies and street views, taken by William John Edmonds, 1914

Album of good amateur native studies and street views, taken by William John Edmonds [b.1883, the vendor's grandfather], gelatin silver prints, mounted (between one and 3 images per page, exceptionally 5), image sizes 120 x 85mm., or smaller, card wrappers, small oblong folio, [1914]

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Comprises views of Malaya and Penang (31, including "Russian Sailors, survivors of the 'Gemchung' [Zhemchug] sunk by 'Emden' in Penang Roadstead 1914", 2 views of the Penang cricket club); Korea (17, mostly street studies of the inhabitants in Seoul); India (58, including street scenes, vendors, etc in Lahore, rural Punjabis and Sikhs, and a view of Amritsar). See illustration overleaf.

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