China, Boxer Rebellion

Folio (332 x 230mm.), 97 silver prints (from 85 x 60mm. to 210 x 295mm.), mounted on thick card recto and verso, together with 6 hand-coloured photographs of Japan (212 x 270mm.), and one glossy silver print of a group in an interior in Kyoto (205 x 260mm.), most images captioned in pencil or crayon on the mount in German, contemporary buckram, upper cover with coloured pictorial design, lacking spine, covers stained

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This album combines professional and amateur photographs in China taken during the time of the Boxer Rebellion, including images of German and other military groups, views in Shanghai, Peking, and Tientsin, portraits of Chinese people, recreational scenes, together with a few images taken in Japan.