1889 - Lot 28

1889 ANNAM and SAIGON Italian-style album titled Photographs (Size: 30.8x23 cm), cloth-lined boards, containing 73 albumen prints, almost all of which are captioned in pencil on the spine. Photograph dimensions: 21.3x16 cm (approx.). Grand mandarin annamite venant de Hué, Bonze, Femme d'un grand mandarin annamite venant de Hué, main de "richard annamite". H.M. the Emperor of Annam Thanh Thai (1889-1907) Soup merchant, merchants, Annamite women, Annamite blacksmith, Minorities Malabar and Chinese carriage Annamite theater, Annamite rifleman Saigon buildings: Rue d'Espagne, rue nationale, Café de la Rotonde rue Catinat, Boulevard Charner Post office, Marine infantry barracks, Marine artillery, Military Hospital, Palace of Justice, Cathedral Square, Botanical Garden (tiger cage, monkey cage) Monuments to Gambetta, Francis Garnier, Rigault de Genouilly Arroyo de Tan Hua Scenes of rice paddies, rice merchant Pagodas: Caong Lanh Thudaumot Saigon Cathedral Plain of Tombs Cap Saint-Jacques (Lighthouse, Governor's Villa) Regatta Palace of the Director of the Interior, Governor's Palace, festival halls Quai des messageries maritimes, signal mast, Saïgon harbor Tomb of Bishop d'Adran, Pigneau de Behaine known as l'Accompli (title awarded by Emperor Nguyen Anh (Gialong) after his death in 1799)