Sale 2594 | Lot 110
Lot 110
(CHINA--SHANGHAI)
An album of over 500 photographs compiled by an American stationed in 1930s Shanghai, depicting the horrific Battle of Shanghai and daily life in the International Settlement.
An album presumed to be compiled by American Lieutenant James Hawkesworth, documenting his life in the American sector of Shanghai in the late 1920s through the 1930s. The first part of the album with images of military life and parades and gruesome scenes from the 1937 Battle of Shanghai, including images of the Honigsberg family outside the Cathay and Palace Hotels (the first American casualties of WWII), the bombing of the Wing On and Sincere department stores, and horrific war scenes of bomb victims and city ruins. The later part of the albums includes images of American daily life in Shanghai, from social events and family snapshots to Chinese landscapes and street scenes. Silver prints, the images measuring 1 3/4x2 5/8 to 9x11 1/4 inches (4.4x6.7 to 22.9x29.8 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, arranged in corners or pasted to the album pages recto/verso, some loose, approximately half of the pages with captions, a few pages loose. Folio, gilt-lettered red leatherette cover, slightly worn; ties. 1928-37
