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SAMOA, HAWAII AND AMERICA
Album of photographs of Samoa, Hawaii, and America (Utah, Nevada, Colarado, California, New York etc. etc), seemingly taken by a passenger who travelled on H.M.S. Alameda from Samoa to Monterey, and subsequently cross-country by railroad, [c.1898-1900]

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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SAMOA, HAWAII AND AMERICA

Album of photographs of Samoa, Hawaii, and America (Utah, Nevada, Colarado, California, New York etc. etc), seemingly taken by a passenger who travelled on H.M.S. Alameda from Samoa to Monterey, and subsequently cross-country by railroad, approximately albumen or gelatin silver prints, mounted between 1 and 4 images per page recto and verso, most captioned in ink beneath the image, images 145 x 210mm., and smaller, 2 leaves loose, contemporary roan, worn with some loss to spine, 4to, [c.1898-1900]

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A good album of mostly private photographs recording the journey of a passenger on H.M.S. Alameda to Samoa and Honolulu, and a cross-country rail journey in America at the end of the nineteenth century. Samoa images include local inhabitants meeting and aboard the ship, scenes in Apia including a farm worker, huts and the Anglican Mission; 13 larger commercial images include a group of Samoans with Robert Louis Stevenson's wife Fanny, and street scenes ("Native village"; "Main Street Apia. Recent War"; the "Old King" and new king Taumafili); Honolulu includes 2 views showing schoolgirls and the Hawaiian State Corps at the funeral of Princess Ka'iulani (1899), "Mixed Bathing" and "Surf Bathing" (numbered in negative); America includes Monterey, California (30, mostly the celebrated Hotel del Monte); Auburn, Ca. including the rail station; Nevada, including the rail station depot at Ogden; Utah (10 including 6 street scenes of Salt Lake city, one of which shows a group of Indians crossing the road in front of The Cullen Hotel); railroad through the Rockies to Denver (9, including derailed trucks); Chicago (12 "American Homes"), New York (15, mostly "Views from roof of 15 storey building"), and others.

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