CIRCA 1919 PHOTO ALBUM Russia Bolsheviks Typhus Japan Manchuria INCREDIBLE RARE
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:590895 | Region of Origin: Japan, Russia, Manchuria |
| Subject: Travel | Date of Creation: 1918 - 1921 |
| Author: US nun/teacher | Photo Type: Photos, postcards, photo cards |
Up for no reserve auction is this incredible travel photo/scrap album that dates to 1919 and 1920. It is made up of original photos taken by the author, some postcards, and period specific photos taken by American Red Cross in Siberia.
This photo album was made by a nun/teacher who traveled in the Far East in 1919 and the early 1920s.
The first page of photos documents her travels on the steamship “Kashima Maru” and docking at Yokohama, Japan - there are photos a...round the Grand Hotel and street and canal scenes in Yokohama as well as ones in and around Tokyo and Kamakura.
The next segment documents her travels on the “Empress of Russia” from Yokohama to Vladivostok and there are photos of the Red Cross train and the Baikal Station. Photos of Omsk and Irtish River - refugee dug-out home, street scene, beggar. Russian churches in Omsk, Tomsk, Irkutsk. Vladivostok Cathedral, Priest in Habarosvk. Edith Barnett (nurse’s aide who died from Typhus in Russia). A.R.C. Train and soldiers. Red Cross care of Typhus victims. Typhus Hospital Car. Bolshevik prisoners. Railroad Yards.
Next are photos of Verkhne and Udinsk and Harbin - 27th USA Infantry camp, RRSC group, barracks, YMCA.
Then there are some phots of Manchuria - Gobi desert, caramel caravan.
Next are photos of Semenoff’s armored train - scenes at railroad stations - a photo of an executed Bolshevik tied to a tree - trainload of revolutionary soldiers from Nikolksk.
Next are photos of the Japanese-Russian Revolution (April 1920) - funeral of Russian and Japanese victims.
Next are photos of A.R.C headquarters and assorted pictures of Vladivostok - pictures of military - General Graves. USS Albany. R.R.S.C. Group/engineers.
This photo album was made by a nun/teacher who traveled in the Far East in 1919 and the early 1920s.
The first page of photos documents her travels on the steamship “Kashima Maru” and docking at Yokohama, Japan - there are photos a...round the Grand Hotel and street and canal scenes in Yokohama as well as ones in and around Tokyo and Kamakura.
The next segment documents her travels on the “Empress of Russia” from Yokohama to Vladivostok and there are photos of the Red Cross train and the Baikal Station. Photos of Omsk and Irtish River - refugee dug-out home, street scene, beggar. Russian churches in Omsk, Tomsk, Irkutsk. Vladivostok Cathedral, Priest in Habarosvk. Edith Barnett (nurse’s aide who died from Typhus in Russia). A.R.C. Train and soldiers. Red Cross care of Typhus victims. Typhus Hospital Car. Bolshevik prisoners. Railroad Yards.
Next are photos of Verkhne and Udinsk and Harbin - 27th USA Infantry camp, RRSC group, barracks, YMCA.
Then there are some phots of Manchuria - Gobi desert, caramel caravan.
Next are photos of Semenoff’s armored train - scenes at railroad stations - a photo of an executed Bolshevik tied to a tree - trainload of revolutionary soldiers from Nikolksk.
Next are photos of the Japanese-Russian Revolution (April 1920) - funeral of Russian and Japanese victims.
Next are photos of A.R.C headquarters and assorted pictures of Vladivostok - pictures of military - General Graves. USS Albany. R.R.S.C. Group/engineers.
