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(CHINA)
Artfully compiled travel album containing 283 well-composed photographs of the
Chinese landscape, people, and monuments by an accomplished amateur photographer.
With scenes depicting landmarks and ornate buildings; studies of local inhabitants, workers and civilians;
as well as various elaborate statues and sculptures and a curious image of a torpedo flying low above
water.Also includes 6 panoramic landscapes. Silver prints, the images measuring 3
1
/
2
x5
1
/
2
inches (8.9x14
cm.), and the reverse, mounted 5 per page recto/verso, 6 panoramas measuring 3
3
/
4
x11
1
/
4
inches
(8.9x28.6 cm.), and 2 hand-colored prints mounted to the front and back pastedowns measuring 7
1
/
2
x12
inches (19.1x30.5 cm.). Oblong small folio, faux crocodile leatherette, ties. 1910s
[1,200/1,800]
The album was apparently shot and compiled by a military photographer. In addition to touristic views
it includes a remarkable image of a torpedo en route to its target as well as scenes of encampments,
communication towers, and public executions.
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Album of the fashionably-attired Miss Cornelia A. Stearns Greiner and her husband,
Colonel Edwin C. Greiner, U.S. Army.
With approximately 140 photographs, comprising 74 of China, 28 of the Philippines, and 60 candid scenes
of family and military life. Includes scarce studies of Negrotos, including natives preparing for a feast of
victory for a successful head hunting, chiefs and tribesmen, Ilocano woman smoking a huge cigar, Igorot
burial, and more. Silver prints, the images measuring 3
1
/
4
x4
1
/
4
to 5
1
/
4
x7
3
/
4
inches (8.3x10.8 to 13.3x19.7
cm.), mounted recto/verso, several with typewritten and/or handwritten captions on mount recto or
identifying information in the negative. Oblong 4to, stiff boards, disbound. 1920s-30s
[1,000/1,500]
The album includes rare ethnographic studies, many real photo postcards, of Igorot or Cordillerans
(the collective name of several Austronesian ethnic groups in the Philippines), who inhabited the
mountains of Luzon.
Archive containing ephemeral family and military materials reflecting Colonel Greiner’s different American
andAsian posts.With a rare Governor-General 1927 passport issued to Miss Stearns Greiner (1927);a 1945
award to Col. Edwin Greiner, U.S.Army, as Chief of Staff of the 16th Armored Division 1945 Liberation
of Bohemia,Czechoslovakia duringWorldWar II;typed and handwritten letters;and assorted photographs.
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