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VIETNAM
DIEULEFILS (PIERRE) An album of 36 views and portraits, mostly in Hanoi, albumen prints, most signed and captioned in the negative, mounted one per page on recto only, images 220 x 160mm., pictorial inlaid lacquer boards, leather spine with gilt bearing "Photographiées par P. Dieulefils Photographe a Hanoi. Tonkin", 4to (260 x 205mm), [c.1890]
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- Dieulefils (1861-1937) was a French photographer and postcard publisher based in Indo-China. After arriving in Tonkin in 1885 as a soldier he went on to establish a photographic studio in Hanoi and exhibited at the 1889 Paris World Fair. Including: parasol makers at work; Tonkinese soldiers; the royal family; a family sitting to eat a meal; musicians; wheelbarrow drivers; Kinh-Luoc pagoda; priests; and apothecary; fishermen; the mother of the Vice Roy; sculptors at work, and boats on the Red River.
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