UNKNOWN AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER

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UNKNOWN AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER

Congo en Aruwimi

An album comprised of approximately 84 gelatin silver prints. 1901-07. Each titled in ink on the page. Several mounted per page, some with secondary mounts, 24 loose. Varying sizes up to 9½ x 7 1/8in. and the reverse. Half black morocco folio with gilt impressed title and date.

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An interesting album compiled by Colonel Calingaux, probably a member of the French or Belgian foreign service, comprised of genre and topographical views that include day-to-day activities such as hunting, cooking, boating, pottery-making, hairdressing, tribal customs and more,as well as portraits of individual warriors, military escorts, soldiers and family groups.