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an old photo of a group of men in military uniformsan old book with a blue cover sitting on top of a tablea picture of a plaque on the wall of a buildinga black and white photo of a train that has fallen overan old picture of a train on the tracksan old picture of a train going over a bridgetwo pictures of a train on the tracks and a train on the tracksa black and white photo of a mountain with a horse and buggyan old picture of a street with a building in the backgroundan old photo of a castle with a horse and carriage in front of ittwo old black and white photos of a view of a town from a hillan old photo of a bridge over a rivertwo black and white photos of a bridge over a riveran old photo of a castle with a clock on ita black and white photo of an old photo of a paradetwo pictures of old buildings on the same side of the streeta black and white photo of a city with a clock toweran old picture of a building with a horse and buggy in front of ittwo old black and white photos of a destroyed building and a riveran old photo of a building with a tower in the backgroundan old picture of a view of a city from the top of a hill
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Estimate €150 - €300
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[Photographs] An Alsatian or Lorrain conscript on his way to his garrison in Cologne, 1889–1892 A substantial, artificially bound souvenir album of photographic prints, 33 x 30 cm, bound in blue half-maroquin with corner pieces, compiled in July–August 1892 by a conscript from Lorraine or Alsace, who was posted in 1889–1890 to the 53rd Westphalian Infantry Regiment, garrisoned in Cologne, Germany. Approx. 240 photographs, mostly printed on albumen paper, in small and large formats, mounted, some captioned, taken by photographers such as Giorgio Sommer in Naples, Francis Frith & Co., and Carl Hertel in Mainz, documenting the grand tour from Nancy and Épinal to Cologne. Views of towns, streets, monuments and landscapes: the Federal Festival in Bern; Basel; Münster; the Münschestein disaster; Lucerne; the Rigi Railway at Vitznau; Fribourg; Strasbourg (cathedral, the destroyed ‘New Temple’, the destroyed stone gate, Place Kléber, the Thieves’ Museum, the Imperial Palace, Gutenberg’s house); Mainz; Frankfurt (synagogue, railway station, statues, squares, cathedral); Wiesbaden (casino, Greek Orthodox church); Fold-out map: The course of the Rhine from Mainz to Cologne; Bonn; Koblenz; Aachen (cathedral, medieval gate, town hall); Cologne (Cathedral Bridge, waterfall, town hall, statues, St Gedeon’s Church, the Golden Chamber of St Ursula’s Basilica, animals in the botanical garden, etc.) The album ends with a photograph of a group of soldiers from the 53rd Westphalian Regiment.
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Auction time 10/08/2026 at 2:00 PM
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