993 - Vietnam—Album containing 66 mounted original photographs. Albumin and silver gelatin. Vintage prints. Circa 1890. Print sizes: 13.5 x 10.5 cm to 16.5 x 23 cm. Contemporary half-leather binding: 24.5 x 31.5 cm (scuffed and bumped).

Vietnam—Album containing 66 mounted original photographs. Albumin and silver gelatin. Vintage prints. Circa 1890. Print sizes: 13.5 x 10.5 cm to 16.5 x 23 cm. Contemporary half-leather binding: 24.5 x 31.5 cm (scuffed and bumped). The first page features a handwritten “Répertoire” listing the titles in French for all 66 photographs taken in “Indochina.” The photographs, mounted individually or in pairs on album pages, are each framed in red, numbered, and accompanied by handwritten or typed captions. - Included are, among others, several views of Dap Cau, Hanoi, Bac Ninh, Haiphong, and Hon Gay, as well as an “Annamite funeral,” an execution, and a torture scene (“Une execution au Tonkin,” “La cadouille”), “Women Purchased by Europeans,” and an “Annamite Butcher,” etc. - Some are slightly faded, others slightly rubbed or stained; the album pages are warped, browned, and stained. #