Lot n° 117
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VOYAGE EN OCÉANIE - ÉTATS-UNIS - INDE "Journal photographiqu - Lot 117
VOYAGE EN OCÉANIE - ÉTATS-UNIS - INDE "Journal photographique" d'un officier français sur le voilier Le Duquesne composée de 1883 à 1888, vues entre 1870 et 1888 par Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912) - John Lawson Stoddard (1850-1931) - Henry L. Chase (1831-1901) - William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) - Charles S. Baker & Eli Johnston - Josiah Martin (1843-1916) - Henri Georgi (1853-1891) - Burton Brothers - Charles Hemus (1849-1925) - Allan Hughan (1834-1883) - Charles Bayliss (1850-1897) - Samuel Sweet (1825-1886).
Honolulu : general view (island of O'ahu), king's palace, rowboat in Vaikiki Bay, lava flow in Hawaii, Hawaiians eating poi, women watching through the window of a Hawaiian hut, hula dance, view of Pali descent, Kapena Falls, men in front of Hilo, Cook monument in Kealakekua Bay, men and children on pirogues in Waipiʻo Valley (island of Maui); San Francisco: Ship Le Dusquesne offshore in 1887, landing, Lotta Fountain, Market and California Street, seals, Chinese theater, Pueblo Laguna Indian village, Indian encampment, Arizona Pimos Indians, Yuma musician; Yosemite Valley: Glacier Point, giant trees, portrait of an Indian, Indian women; New Zealand: Auckland, a corner of the museum in 1901, portrait of King Tawhiao, Maori family in Te Taurua, man and woman with tattooed faces, Queen Street, Mount Eden Street, North-Shore, bush, Wangarei River, Waitakerei torrent, Wairua Falls, Rotomahana white terraces, eruption, Wairakei crater, kaori the giant tree, Maoris : on a pirogue, fording, house, kiss, king, weapons and objects, chief, queen, family, women, view of the Duquesne in Auckland Bay; New Caledonia: Nouméa, settlers' valley, government palace, Kanaks, Koké and Gelimah huts, Canala chiefs, double pirogue, Saint-Louis mission, Port-boisé, men in the trees in front of the Loyalty Islands hut, Chépénéké bay, Aasu Bay (Tutuila Island, Samoa Islands), men at arms in front of Langle monument, Païta woman, New Caledonian arms, chief interpreter, portraits of New Caledonian, Australian, Nouméa native police, Loyalty woman, portraits of men : New Hebrides, Port-Sandwich, Fiji; Australia: group of Aborigines on the Murray River, Paramatta, Govetts Leap Falls, Blue Mountains Railway, Melbourne: streets, harbor, Adelaide, Queensland Aborigines: portraits, on the Murray River, Poonindie Aboriginal Mission School; Mauritius: Port Louis, Jardin des Pamplemousses, harbor, Baie Tamarin, men inside the mosque, Indian portraits; Reunion: Le Barachois in Saint-Denis, Cap Bernard, Bassin du Caïman, private house and garden, quartier de la Société, Pont de l'Escalier, Promenade de la Bernica, Cascades de la Savane; Seychelles: Mahé Island (Port Victoria). Photographs. Album of approximately 122 albumen prints, some with captions or dates in ink beneath the images. Black percaline cover with burgundy leather yoke monogrammed "E.J." and neo-Gothic clasp. Spine missing. Images: 9.2 x 5.8 cm to 17.8 x 23.3 cm; album: 26.8 x 36.8 cm This voyage begins in Hawaii. The sailors went on to San Francisco, New Caledonia, New Zealand, the Sandwich Islands, Australia, Mauritius, Reunion, India and the Seychelles. Composed mainly of views purchased from the photographic studios of the countries visited, plus a few personal views, the set is in a remarkable state of preservation.
Bilbliography: Serge Kakou, "Découverte photographique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. 1848-1900", Actes Sud, 1998, p.106.
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