A fascinating photo album assembled by a French Jesuit missionary in China during the first quarter of the 20th century. This album tells the story of Jesuit priest Père Crochet who began working as a missionary in China in the 1890s, remaining there until at least the 1930s. Two larger.....
![Item #6148 [1920s Hawaii photo album with “The Big Kahuna” content.]. Ray Jerome Baker,...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6148.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1611604763)
An album of over 100 original photographs documenting a French tourist’s trip to Hawaii at the time of the centennial of the arrival of American missionaries, with images of apparently related celebrations, two photos of Duke Kahanamoku—the noted father of modern surfing and Olympic swimmer—and an engaging variety of other.....
![Item #5490 [Locomotive photo archive.] Photographs; Porte Feuille [cover-titles]. Boston,...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5490_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1575040057)
An impressive photo archive documenting a range of locomotives built for the Boston & Providence Railroad by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works; the Taunton Locomotive Mfg. Co.; Mason Machine Works; the Hinkley & Williams Works, and the Boston & Providence itself. Forty-two of the various engines pictured were produced between.....
A rich collection of photographs primarily by pioneering travel photographer Samuel Bourne, his partner Charles Shepherd, and Bourne & Shepherd photographer Colin Murray, taken in India, Pakistan, and Burma in the 1860s and 1870s. This group of photographs spans Samuel Bourne’s prolific seven year photography career in India and embraces.....
A photo album documenting a 1905 western tour undertaken by a Czech American from Chicago who was active in the Freethinkers Movement. Adolf Hrusa was one of many Czechs who belonged to the Freethinkers Movement (or Society of Free-Thinkers), an organization that split from the Catholic Church as a result.....
A stunning and important set of eight photo albums documenting Japanese life, scenery, and culture, as well as the activities of two American expatriate brothers in Japan and the foreign community to which they belonged. Also included are images of China, Hong Kong, and Formosa (Taiwan). These albums, compiled by.....
![Item #8102 Rescue at Camp Sabine, or Clay, June 22d 1884 at 11 O’Clock. [manuscript title]....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8102_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1684537745)
A rare photograph of an official painting by artist Albert Operti depicting the rescue of the surviving members of the Greely Arctic Expedition, inscribed by expedition survivor Sergt. Francis Long. This image shows the rescue of members of Adolphus W. Greely’s ill-fated and grueling Lady Franklin Bay expedition. In 1881.....
![Item #7062 [Glacier National Park photo album]. Unknown compiler, postcard photographer T. J....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7062_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630879084)
An impressive Glacier National Park photo album, apparently compiled by a woman during a visit in the 1920s, providing ample documentation of the park’s extraordinary natural beauty and early buildings, as well as the compiler’s peregrinations, various companions, people encountered along the way, etc. Mounted at the beginning of the.....
A scarce and vivid photographic portrait of Calcutta as seen through the eyes of an American G.I. photojournalist from Texas at the close of World War II. A member of the Houston Press before the war, Clyde Waddell served as personal photographer to Lord Mountbatten from 1943 to 1945. He.....