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an old photo of a couple of people on a beachan old book with writing on it sitting on a tablean old book sitting on top of a white table covered in a patternphotograph of a group of people standing on a beach next to a body of waterphotograph of a man riding a donkey with a group of people around hima black and white photo of two children and a dogan old photo of a woman in a dress with a catan old photo of a man standing in front of a windowtwo old black and white photos of a group of people standing in front of a buildingan old photo of a man cutting another man ' s haira black and white photo of a group of people walking down a dirt roadan old photo of a man with a hat and a guitara black and white photo of two men standing in the deserttwo old black and white photos of a group of people in front of a buildingtwo old black and white photos of people in front of a housean old photo of a group of people standing in front of a treephotograph of a black and white photo of a village in the middle of the dayan old photo of a couple of pictures on a tabletwo old black and white photos of a man and a woman with a horsetwo old black and white photographs of people in a fieldan old black and white photo of a woman in a dress and hata old photo of a group of people on the watera black and white photo of a group of people on a beachan old map of a city with a lot of water on itan old photo of two pages of a book with a picture of a landscapean old photo of a man riding a horse in the middle of a fieldan old photo of a group of people standing in front of a buildingtwo old black and white photos of people standing in a fieldan old photo of a man and a woman walking down the streettwo old black and white photographs of horses and people in a fieldtwo old black and white photographs of a street and a buildingan old black and white photo of a group of men on horsestwo black and white photographs of a large gun on displaytwo old black and white photos of a beach with a boat in the watertwo old black and white photographs of people and horses in front of a buildingtwo old black and white photos of people standing in front of a buildingtwo old black and white photos of a farm and a housean old black and white photo of a group of people standing in front of a buildinga black and white photo of a group of people under umbrellasphotograph of a sepia toned photograph of a house on a hill with a tree in the foreground
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[Photographs] The First Sino-Japanese War, 1894–1895 Italian-style album containing 67 albumen prints, approx. 15 x 10 cm, mounted on stiff card (16 x 24 cm), all captioned in pen Album formerly owned by Charles Gabriel Olry de Labry (1864–1920), a cavalry officer seconded as military attaché to the French Legation in Tokyo, Japan, in 1893–1894 and again in 1898–1900 Extremely rare photographs from a photo-reportage by Georges Bigot (1860–1927), a French journalist, artist and photographer living in Japan between 1881 and 1899, commissioned by the English newspaper *The Graphic* to cover the first war between China and the Japanese Empire, which took place mainly in Korea (North and South): views of Busan, Pyongyang, Port Arthur and Kin-Tcheou. Including: Korean junks, Busan – Japanese sentries on the quay at Busan – Korean porters - Korean coolies, Fusan – Street vendors, Fusan – Korean civil servants – Fusan, Korean junks – A group of men including Georges Bigot - Japanese concession, Fusan – Japanese soldiers in front of the theatre in Fusan – Fusan harbour – Korean civil servants and residents – Typical Korean women – Fusan, Korean fishermen – Japanese funeral in Fusan - Port of Fusan - A small gate in Pyongyang - Wounded horse in Pyongyang - Botandai Fort, Pyongyang - A street in Pyongyang - Food stores in the vicinity of Pyongyang - Pontoon bridge over the Tadung River - Interior of Pyongyang - A Korean peasant threshing rice in a mill - Machine guns captured in Pyongyang - A Japanese sentry in Pyongyang - Japanese soldiers having a meal in Pyongyang - A devastated street in Pyongyang - The gate of a barracks in Kintcheou - Part of the Kintcheou citadel - Japanese soldiers entering Kintcheou - Cannon captured at Talienwan - Japanese coolies taking a break in Kintcheou - Gate of the Japanese Red Cross ambulance in Kintcheou - Chinese people in front of the Japanese administrative office in Kintcheou - A main street and a gate in Kintcheou - A street in Port Arthur - Chinese corpses, Port Arthur - Japanese officers in Kintcheou - Japanese administrative office in Kintcheou - Chinese prisoners and their Japanese guards - A street in Port Arthur - General view of Port Arthur - Marshal Oyana’s lunch, Port Arthur These photographs are all the more rare on the art market. The photo archive of the South-East Asia and Insular India collection (ASEMI) (Côte d’Azur University, Nice) holds around 50 photographs (out of a total of 200 taken by Bigot at the time), preserved in the collection of the painter Louis Jules Dumoulin. Some photographs are also held at the Kawasaki City Museum in Japan.
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