2 vols.
(Scrapbooks - Bering Sea Seal Fisheries.) Lansing, Emma S. March - July, 1893 & November 1896 - February 1897. 4to, orig. cloth.
Scrapbooks compiled by Emma S. Lansing as she accompanied her brother, Robert Lansing [American lawyer who seved on many international arbitration cases & became Secretary of State in the Wilson administration] to the Bering Sea Fisheries Arbitrarion Tribunal in Paris in 1893 & the Bering Sea Claims Commission in Victoria, B.C., during 1896-97. These albums contain orig. photos, business cards of tribunal members, tribunal session tickets, press clippings relating to the tribunals, formal photo portrait of the commission members; invitations to social events, menus, theater & opera programs. Each scrapbook with hand-drawn & colored title page. Most pieces mounted.