[PEKING PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM: A STUNNING GROUP OF 79 EXCELLENTBLACK & WHITE 1920-1

ORIENT & OCCIDENT/LILLICO PHOTO.

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[Orange 1920-30's, Orient & Occident]. Japanese black album, hand-carved wood covers, lacquered, 38 x 70 cm., 27 black stiff-paper pages,79 black and white glossy photographs, an excellent example, string-tide spine. ORIGINAL PERIOD PHOTOS . *** **** *** . .A FASCINATING SUPERB GROUP OF BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS OF . . . VARIOUS SIGHTS, PLACES & PEOPLE OF OLD PEIPING . . . TAKEN BY AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR ORIENT & OCCIDENT . . . AND LILLICO COMPANY OF ORANGE, NEW JERSEY . . . 79 PHOTOS IN ALL EACH WITH TYPED CAPTIONS . * This is an excellent set of 79 fine photographic examples of Peiping environs & views. . General subjects photographed: The Forbidden City, Emperor & Empress, Dowager Empress, architecture, palaces, temples, transportation, religion, customs, business, Confucianism, Tibetans, Lamaism, art works, jade, food, various musical instruments, dance, winter snow scenes, foreign delegations, stone sculpture, bronzes, palace scenery, snow scenes, dragons, marriage &c. . Transportation: ox and donkey carts, camel trains, rickshaws, horseback & rail road trains, shanks mere &c. . *** THE PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIOS: Photo studio credits to Orient & Occident: 779 East Clark Place, Orange, New Jersey and Lillico: 746 E. Clark Place, Orange, New Jersey. . *** PHOTOGRAPHER'S NAMES ARE CITED ON SOME PHOTOS: . Frederick O. Bemm [1887-1944]: Bemm was an active photographer 1910's-1930's. Bemm was a staff photographer for the Art Institute of Chicago and later owned and operated a studio. Several institutions including the Chicago History Museum have collections of his work. See references below. * H.R. Ferger [1889-1987: Also known as Rev. Henri Rabb Ferger, born in Tennessee, was a missionary and teacher for the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in India. Most of his photographs were taken 1920 to 1940. There are many entries for him on the internet. See references below. * P.M. Hinkhouse, background & data not found. . *** THE ALBUM: The album has a black lacquer border with gold painted decorations. In the center area is a natural wood hand-carved scene of Mt. Fuji in the background, and a rural farm in the foreground. Shows a typical farm house with traditional rice straw roof, watermill and a pagoda in the distance. All page have gilt edges. . See photos posted on our website. . *** DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALBUM PAGE NUMBERS, each photo has a typed caption, we summarize the captions below: . There are a few 'standard' & many odd sized photos, per the below list. We indicate width x height, although some photos follow this size, some are the same size but vertical or horizontal, most all sizes are rounded off to be approximately + or -a couple of mm.], all measurements are in cm.: size: dimensions: "a" = 14 x 8 cm. "b" = 16.5 x 15 "c" = 19.5 x 12 "d" = 9 x 14.5 "e" = 16 x 21 "f" = 22 x 15 "g" = 7.5 x 10 "h" = 12.4 x 18 "i" = 8 x 14 "j" = 12 x 8.5 "k" = 10.5 x 8 "l" = 15 x 10.5 "m" = 12 x 12.5 "n" = 7 x 12.5 "o" = 8.5 x 15 "p" = 17 x 12 . Page numbers below match the penciled number on each page as near the corner as possible: . SUBJECT OF THE PHOTOS BY PAGE NUMBERS: . Page # Description Size --------------------------------------------------------- 1: 4 Photos: a. FIVE SACRED BRIDGES IN FORBIDDEN CITY, size a b. INSIDE FORBIDDEN CITY, " " " c. " " " , A CANAL size b . 2. 3 Photos: a. FORBIDDEN CITY, ROCKERY, THE BOY EMPEROR LIVED size c b. " " LOTUS POND, NORTH WALL size a c. " " CORNER OF THE WALL size d . 3. 2 Photos: a. " " ALTAR OF HEAVEN, NIGHT PHOTO size b b. CONFUCIAN TEMPLE, STONE DRUMS size d . 4. 3 Photos a. " " INTERIOR, THE OLD UNIVERSITY size e b. CHANG TSO LIN PARTICIPATES CONFUCIAN CEREMONY size a c. PORCELAIN MEMORIAL ARC "PAILOW" " . 5. 3 Photos: a. CONFUCIAN PRIEST PLAYING DRUMS size d b. BELLS & GONGS " c. HALL OF CLASSICS " . 6. 2 Photos a. A RELIC OF MANCHU GRANDEUR, MARBLE BRIDGE, SUMMER PALACE . size f b. PAVILIONS SUMMER PALACE, OF DOWAGER EMPRESS size d . 7. 4 Photos: a. WHITE MARBLE BRIDG. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 37004101

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