Sale 2536 | Lot 292

(VIETNAM--AGRICULTURE)
Album entitled Domaine Agricole de l'Ouest, Bloc de Thotnot, with 16 photographs of rice paddies.
A handsome album documenting the agricultural venture in southern Vietnam, including the canals, dredging machinery, paddies, and storage structures, also depicting the management and local people working in the fields; including an elegant 3-part panorama to open the album. Thô't nô't is located in the Mekong Delta, now considered the "rice basket of Vietnam." Silver prints, the images measuring 6½x9 inches (16.5x22.9 cm.), the 3-part panorama 4¾x25 inches (12x63.5 cm.), on mounts slightly larger, and then on the album pages recto only, 7 with a Photo Nadal Saigon embossed blind stamp on print recto, and each with a French caption label (one handwritten, and the rest printed) on the album pages; with 9 additional photographs from the same studio and theme, many apparently taken from the back of a boat in a canal, laid in at the rear. Oblong 4to, marbled paper boards with a title label; with a beautiful and precise hand-drawn map on the first page; ties. 1929-30

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