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Lot 228
Sale 5132 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2017
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$300 -
500
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$425
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Lot Description
(Travel : Historica...
(Travel : Historical Photos) 1 Vol. Photo Album. Colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia). Ca. 1920 - 1922. Oblong small folio, snakeskin-patterned cloth. Holding 55 hinge mounted vernacular silver gelatin photos (2 1/2 x 4 /14 to 8 x 6 inches), many captioned, depicting the farming activities of Dick and Jack Fraser and their African (Shona people) workers in Mashonaland. Also includes 3 silver gelatin photos (6 1/4 x 8 inches) of Victoria Lake and the Falls by Percy R. Clark and a photo of the South Africa Union (silver gelatin print, 6 x 7 1/2 inches), by Roberts. Internally in very good to near excellent state of preservation. Ownership of Fraser-Mackenzie, dated "1922" on inside front cover.