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BRITISH COLUMBIA Album of 71 views, portrait groups and informal studies including some identified as "Siwash Indians", mostly relating to British Columbia, [c.1890s]; and another late nineteenth/early twentieth century photograph album, including approximately 80 photographic views of America (2)
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London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,000 inc. premium
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BRITISH COLUMBIA
Album of 71 views, portrait groups and informal studies including some identified as "Siwash Indians", mostly relating to British Columbia, albumen prints, mostly 120 x 165mm., mounted mostly 2 images per page, captioned in pencil on mount, a few leaves loose, lacks covers, 4to, [c.1890s]; and another late nineteenth/early twentieth century photograph album, including approximately 80 photographic views of America (2)
Footnotes
Good album of photographs, mostly relating to the Okanagan Lake region of British Columbia. Includes a series 12 studies of First Nation peoples identified in the captions as ?"Siwash Indians" (family group by tents, on horseback or with saddles, "Charlie our hunter", and "Johnnie" by a wooden fence"); views of Sicamous (hotel, wooden bridge), Coldstream Hotel at Vernon (2), Okanagan Lake (5, including "S.S. Penticton", and 2 showing a horse and cart at the water's edge, reminiscent of Constable's Haywain); series of views (some populated) of "G.N.B's house" and environs, including the small white wooden slat house, the family horse and trap, tweed suited man with gun outside his snow covered hunting tent, a man identified as Basil Mitchell (several, 2 holding a gun and hatchet beside a picket fence), "Francois & wild horse" (2, one horse bucking and mounted; one horse lying down tamed), "Indian log hut"; "Railway from Vernon to Enderby" (2, women seated on a hand cart with workers). Others includes "View from Vancouver Town" and 2 views in Stanley Park; Niagara Falls (4); The Bush (3, "before clearing", "cotton trees", and "with burnt trees").
The views of America include 2 views of Harvard College (the square; dining hall) by G.W. Pach of Broadway, and a full-length cabinet portrait of "Ho Hun Hua - Professor of Chinese at Harvard College" (identified in ink on mount) by Pach of New York; The remainder mostly small views (c.70 x 70mm.), including San Francisco (3, Palace Hotel; "Over the housetops - Chinese Quarter"), Colorado, West Kansas , "Virginia City, Nevada", Savannah (6), New Orleans (6), St. Augustine, Florida (6).
Saleroom notices
Please note the second album contains c.50 American images, the remainder mostly Germany, Vienna, Budapest etc.