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983 - Album of 275 original photographs, postcards and documents o…
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Estimate €800 - €1,200
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Album of 275 original photographs, postcards and documents on the Belgian Congo. Mss. captions on spine. - Folio: rich documentation comprising a set of 244 silver prints and a few collotypes (approx. 84 postcards and 161 various formats), inserted: portraits of African prisoners, Belgian shipping company liners "Léopoldville", "Bruxellesville", "Albertville", Elisabethville", pickers in cotton fields, views of the towns of Brazzaville, Lubumbashi (Elisabethville) and Kinshasa (Léopolville), portraits of Belgian families, native villages, a hospital, a visit by the Duchess of Brabant to the Wendji Red Cross in 1933, hunting trophies, colourised portraits of Congolese women, dances, elephants and other wild animals... 29 documents: leaflets, illustrations, caricatures, maritime colonial exhibition in Antwerp in 1930, driving licence, booklet of medical prescriptions, stamped envelopes, booklet of postcards from the colonial exhibition in Paris in 1931, Cercle colonial namurois, booklet of typescript songs, stamp bearing the effigy of General Mobutu from the Agence philathelique de la République du Congo (1966), 1 illustrated handwritten letter headed "Documentation du Ministère des colonies de Belgique". 2 banknotes of the Central Bank of the Belgian Congo from 1959 and 1960.
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About the sale Prints & Drawings, Photographs & Comics, Rare Books, Atlases & Manuscripts, Surrealism, Congo, Erotica & Ballets russes
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Auction time 06/26/2026 at 1:00 PM
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