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Album of 287 original postcards and photographs of the Belgi…
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Album of 287 original postcards and photographs of the Belgi…
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Estimate €800 - €1,200
Voluntary lot
Description
Album of 287 original postcards and photographs of the Belgian Congo. Folio: silver prints (including a stereoscopic view), collotypes and offset prints, inserted, mss. captions on spine. - Rich set comprising 133 postcards and 154 photographs: views of the Belgian Colonial University in Antwerp, skinning of a lion, African tribes, dugout canoes, laying of a railway track, governor's residence, dancing, travelling by car in the savannah, villages and portraits of natives, M. Franck - Minister for the Colonies, hunting and fishing, work in the fields and basket-making, ivory and rubber trade, several views of the port town of Banana and mining operations (Kilo-Moto), cocoa and coffee plantations, dam and hydroelectric power station, road construction, etc.
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About the sale
Prints & Drawings, Photographs & Comics, Rare Books, Atlases & Manuscripts, Surrealism, Congo, Erotica & Ballets russes
Auction location
Auction time
06/26/2026 at 1:00 PM
Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
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