细节
R. Boock (photographer)
Antofagasta and Bolivia Railway: A pair of presentation albums containing mounted albumen print photographs, [circa 1890]. 2 volumes, oblong 2 (28.7 x 37cm.) 66 photographs by R. Boock, each 15.8 x 21.9cm.on individual grey card mounts with decorative gilt printed surround, with general title, photographer's credit and individual titles printed in black, two mounts with additional pen-and-ink notes. (Some fading to photographs, occasional small tears to mounts.) Original blue morocco-backed cloth, lettered in gilt 'Antofagasta and Bolivia Railway' and 'Henri Letellier' on upper covers, g.e. (some old dampstaining). Provenance: Henri Letellier (bindings).
A fine series of photographs forming an eloquent visual witness to the success of the Antofagasta and Bolivia Railway. 'Antofagasta, a town and port of northern Chile and capital of the Chilean province of the same name, situated about 768 m.[iles] N.[orth] of Valparaiso...Antofagasta is the seaport for a railway running to Oruro, Bolivia, and is the only available outlet for the trade of the south-western departments of that republic. The smelting works for the neighbouring silver mines are located here, and a thriving trade with the inland mining towns is carried on. The town was founded in 1870 as a shipping port for the recently discovered silver mines of that vicinity...belonged to Bolivia until 1879...[and] was definitely ceded to that republic in 1885.' (Encyclopaedia Britannica 1910, vol.II, pp.147-8).
The first album concentrates on Antofagasta as a town, a railway depot and a port. It includes views of the various manufactures and two of the various members of the "Oficina Administracion" (all indentified in ink), together with a series of views of the their houses. The second album concentrates on views along the route of the railway, from Antofagasta on the coast up to the Bolivian border. (2)
Antofagasta and Bolivia Railway: A pair of presentation albums containing mounted albumen print photographs, [circa 1890]. 2 volumes, oblong 2 (28.7 x 37cm.) 66 photographs by R. Boock, each 15.8 x 21.9cm.on individual grey card mounts with decorative gilt printed surround, with general title, photographer's credit and individual titles printed in black, two mounts with additional pen-and-ink notes. (Some fading to photographs, occasional small tears to mounts.) Original blue morocco-backed cloth, lettered in gilt 'Antofagasta and Bolivia Railway' and 'Henri Letellier' on upper covers, g.e. (some old dampstaining). Provenance: Henri Letellier (bindings).
A fine series of photographs forming an eloquent visual witness to the success of the Antofagasta and Bolivia Railway. 'Antofagasta, a town and port of northern Chile and capital of the Chilean province of the same name, situated about 768 m.[iles] N.[orth] of Valparaiso...Antofagasta is the seaport for a railway running to Oruro, Bolivia, and is the only available outlet for the trade of the south-western departments of that republic. The smelting works for the neighbouring silver mines are located here, and a thriving trade with the inland mining towns is carried on. The town was founded in 1870 as a shipping port for the recently discovered silver mines of that vicinity...belonged to Bolivia until 1879...[and] was definitely ceded to that republic in 1885.' (Encyclopaedia Britannica 1910, vol.II, pp.147-8).
The first album concentrates on Antofagasta as a town, a railway depot and a port. It includes views of the various manufactures and two of the various members of the "Oficina Administracion" (all indentified in ink), together with a series of views of the their houses. The second album concentrates on views along the route of the railway, from Antofagasta on the coast up to the Bolivian border. (2)