4974 - 5211 FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
= One album contains mostly x-ray photographs, the other mostly showing patients with various diseases and deformities, i.a. a loosely inserted albumen print (laid down on mount) showing a man with elephantiasis.
= Part of a series of 10 photographs showing the same young woman/ adolescent girl.
- Comprises i.a. "Today I know for sure that we know very little about oneselves or about the universe!", "Pattern of life repeating & repeating" and "There are circumstances between heaven & earth".
= "Plaza en Saltillo am 2 April 1901. Mexico Gedenktag der Schlacht bei Puebla" and ±85 other snapshots of views in Mexico. I.a. city views of Alameda, Cordoba, Durango, Guadalupe, Monterrey, Orizaba, Saltillo, Santa Cruz, Veracruz.
- Partly sl. faded, some sl. dam.
= The Egyptian Muhammed Sadiq Bey was the first photographer to capture the Kaaba. In 1880, during the Hajj, Sadiq accompanied the pilgrims on their journey to Mecca, being responsible for the safe arrival of the mahmal. During these travels, Sadiq photographed the devoted muslims and took the first ever photographs of Medina. Shortly after, the Dutch islamologist Snouck Hurgronje entered Mecca, being the first European to have acces to the holy sanctuary. Commissioned by Snouck Hurgronje, Al Sayyid ʿAbd al-Ghaffâr took many of the photographs of Mecca and surroundings. From 1900, the Indian photographer Mirza also captured Mecca, making Sadiq Bey and Mirza the earliest known photographers of Islam's holy sanctuaries. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.
AND ±160 others of the pilgrimage to Mecca, possibly by SNOUCK HURGRONJE, STUDIO MIRZA AND MUHAMMED SADIQ BEY, i.a. (The Hajj in Mecca) (albumen print, ±1880, 17x22,8 cm., w. caption in pencil on verso) and (Pilgrim encampment near Mount Arafat) (collotype, 15x20,3 cm.).
- Partly sl. faded.
= Pilgrimage from Jeddah to Mecca. Apart from some portraits, many street views with throngs of people, i.a. of Jeddah, Medina, Mecca, Mount Arafat, Taif and Yanbu.
= The 25th (1st Württemberg) Dragoons "Queen Olga" regiment participated in i.a. World War I and the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871).
AND 2 other group portraits, ±1900-1920, of the Marine Corps (27,5x35,5 cm.) and "Herne Bay College O.T.C. Shooting Team, March 1924" (20,3X29 cm.).
= Photographs of the "Curaçao Trading Company" and the "Hamburg-America Line".
AND 1 other album w. ±150 photographs, ±1930, 4x6 cm. (some sl. larger), all mounted onto board in contemp. album.
- Some photographs have been cut out of the album causing some damage to the page.
= Incl. (sea)views in and around Curaçao, i.a. ports of neighbouring countries like Cuba, Haïti and Venezuela.
= I.a. showing the Moerdijk bridge over het Hollands Diep, construction works in Haarlem near the Amsterdamse Poort, the Brongebouw (Haarlem) and Fort de Kwakel in construction (1906).
AND an ANONYMOUS gelatin silver print showing eight African (?) boys sitting in the foreground and many men working in the background around thatched huts (w. small tear in lower middle).
= In a few photographs a western man is visible, but it appears the photographs are taken for ethnographic purposes. I.a. showing women with scarification, people with various costumes and hair styles. A few photographs of buildings, i.a. tree houses (Korowai tribes).
= Fine views showing Nijmegen before it was destroyed in WWII. Including views of Café Mariënburg (Houtmarkt), the city wall, Kronenburgerpark, Stevenskerk and some archaeological finds.
AND another album w. 16 photographs of Amsterdam and surroundings, ±1890, i.a. of Diemen, Haarlemmertrekvaart, Rokin and Verwerspad.
- Bookblock loose.
= "Aan Dr. Jean Pierre Dozy, Inspecteur voor het Geneeskundig Staatstoezicht voor de Provincie Noord-Holland sedert 1 Jan. 1885, den laatsten Voorzitter van den Geneeskundigen Raad, wordt dit Album door de leden ter herinnering aan zijne werkzaamheden aangeboden. 13 Mei 1902."
= I.a. the Dutch team marching during the opening ceremony, the Netherlands vs. Hungary waterpolo, the final of the 200 meter sprint for women, Soviet Union vs. Chile basketball, Emile Zátopek winning the marathon and Dutch Van der Zee vs. Russian Bulakow boxing match.
- Occas. sl. worn/ bumped along extremities.
= Nice documentary series following the day of a young pianist, leaving home, at school with friends, following classes, exercising, training, performing and sleeping.
- Sl. foxed; faded along corners.
AND 13 other mainly anonymous panoramas, various sizes, various techniques, i.a. of Biarritz, Dar es Salaam, Port of Aden, Port Louis, Toledo and Trondheim (partly sl. faded).
= Family album w. a great part of the photographs showing colonial life in Iloilo and Legazpi, incl. photographs of street life, natives, the family house and interior, and family portraits. Also incl. some photographs of the interior of houses in Shanghai and Trinidad, and several holiday snapshots taken in Dorset, Finley, Las Palmas, Netley, and Southampton.