[ASIA - SAKHALIN] [Historically Important Album with 108 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Sakhalin (Pre-Russo-Japanese War), Showing Tsarist Prisons, Executioners and Prisoners, Post Alexandrovsky, Post Korsakovsky, Villages and Settlements in Northern and Southern Sakhalin, Early Oil Enterprises, Japanese Fishing Boats and Fisheries, Japanese Consulate, Nivkh, Ainu, Tungus and Orok People, etc.]
Сa. 1900. Oblong Folio album (ca. 32x41 cm). 24 card stock leaves. With 108 mounted gelatin silver photographs, including one two-part panorama ca. 12x30 cm (4 ½ x 11 ¾ in) and over twenty large photos ca. 16,5x22,5 cm (6 ½ x 8 ¾ in); the rest are from ca..... More