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Lot 120
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(OCEANLINER TRAVEL)
Album with more than 135 photographs by a
talented commercial photographer depicting the
world cruise of the R.M.S. Franconia, with
views of the smart set disporting themselves on
board the ship (including the Ingenious Dress
Dance and Neptune Day) counterposed with
picturesque scenes in Trinidad, Bahia, and Rio
de Janeiro, St. Helena (including Napoleon’s
residence and bathtub), Capetown and Victoria
Falls (South Africa), and the Seychelles. Silver
prints, 4x6 inches (10.2x15.2 cm.), and the
reverse, mounted one or 2 per page, many with
a neat caption, in white ink, below the images;
and 2 10x8-inch hand-tinted prints laid in.
Oblong small folio, twin-bolt binding, leatherette,
with a debossed image of a clipper ship on the
front cover. 1937
[600/900]
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119
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(HAIR FASHION)
Marcelwear: Make a Perfect Wave. Period box containing a Do-It Yourself Kit and an accordion-
fold display containing 10 photographs of a young woman morphing from a simple straight-haired
lass to a sexy, wavy-haired one, and 2 larger prints from this same series. Plus printed matter and the
actual metal implements fashion-conscious consumers used to create this French-inspired hairstyle.
Silver prints, 5
1
/
2
x3
1
/
2
to 6
1
/
4
x5 inches (14x8.9 to 15.9x12.7 cm.). 16mos, self-wrappers. 1920s
[300/450]
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(EROTICA—EUROPEAN RISQUÉ)
Group of 29 nude and other risqué studies of women, primarily French, and including photographs
by Louis Jean-Baptiste Igout, Jose Maris Canellas, and Henri Oltramare; with classical, artful posing.
Silver and albumen prints, sizes ranging from 5x3
1
/
2
to 6
1
/
4
x4
3
/
4
inches (12.7x8.9 to 15.9x12.1 cm.),
and the reverse, a few with hand stamps on verso; one pair of images is mounted to board. Circa
1870s-1900
[1,400/1,800]
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