1930-1947 FROM ANNAM TO DALAT Set of approximately 380 photos mounted on Italian album boards (glued). Various formats. Souvenir photos of Madame Hélène Jolly. Tonkin landscapes, Along Bay, Chua Thay Pagoda, Mandarins, Rice paddies, High Plateau minorities, Tonkinese girls, H.M. Bao Daï and Empress Nam Phong, Hué, Interior of a Tonkinese house in Hanoi in 1934, Pnom Penh, Angkor, Laos, an execution photo (possibly taken during the Boxer War in China)... Rich testimony to the life of French residents and their social life. - Also included: Some sixty photographic prints from 1939 to 1956, most with captions on the back. 4 large silver prints by M. Jolly in Angkor and Tonkin.

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