MARTINIQUE - WALLIS AND FUTUNA - NEW CALEDONIA - TAHITI - 19 - Lot 105

MARTINIQUE - WALLIS AND FUTUNA - NEW CALEDONIA - TAHITI - 1900 WORLD'S FAIR Album of a French soldier, 1890-1925. Photographs. Album comprising 80 prints, including 2 albumen prints, 36 citrate prints and 42 vintage silver prints. Fort-de-France : place de la Savane with statue of Joséphine de Beauharnais, top of Fort Deraix and colonel's house, La Fontaine Didier, mouth of the Rivière Madame, the liner Amérique towed by the Saint-Simon, Didier waterfall, sugarcane harvest in the village of La Trinité, colonists and black servants at their feet, view of the bay, colonial army climbing a hill, colonial houses in the vegetation, family and animals in front of a house, seated at a table in the garden, couple and their dog having a drink, portraits of men in colonial dress, on horseback ; Guadeloupe: crowd in front of Saint-Claude church, settlers playing croquet, group portraits including child and hens, settlers in historic Fort Richepanse cemetery in Basse-Terre; Wallis-et-Futuna: men and their pirogues clinging to a battleship; New Caledonia: view of Nouméa from the south; young women from Bora-Bora, woman on horseback, couple petting their fox, car ride; 1900 Paris World's Fair: pavilions along the Seine, barges, cannons, animated views with horse-drawn carriage, entrance to the Belgian and Russian pavilions, Dutch and German pavilions, reflections of the Trocadero buildings in the water, Palais du Costume, Luxembourg Gardens, Algerian, Italian and Chinese pavilions, Alexandre III bridge, dragons in front of the Senate. Images: 7.2 x 10.6 cm to 12.5 x 17.5 cm; album: 15.5 x 25.4 cm