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A Grand Tour, Circa 1927, Four Art Deco style large quarto…
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Melbourne
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11-Dec-2017
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A Grand Tour, Circa 1927, Four Art Deco style large quarto photo albums, original brown cloth boards with decorative device and 'Photographs' in gilt, each volume with contemporary manuscript paper title to spine, Vol.1 'New Zealand / S.S. Taiping / Canberra': containing 97 window-mounted sepia carbon print photographs including views of Canberra (10), New Zealand (61), Thursday Island and North Queensland (13), Manila (6), etc. Vol.2 'Australia': containing 97 window-mounted sepia carbon print photographs including Melbourne & Ballarat Botanical Gardens, Howard Hitchcock's home in Geelong, Sebastapol Diggings, Mount Buffalo area, Sydney Harbour views including the Harbour Bridge at a very early stage of construction, Jenolan Caves, etc. Vol.3 'New Zealand': containing 96 window-mounted sepia carbon print photographs including Castor Bay, Rotorua, Mt. Tarawera, Whakarewarewa, Wairakei, Dunedin, Lyttleton, New Plymouth, Christchurch, etc. Vol.4 'Aorangi / Kashgar' (ships): containing 48 window-mounted sepia carbon print photographs including Capilano Canyon, Vancouver, Stanley Park, Fraser River Canyon, Honolulu, Suva, Suez Canal, Penang, and some scenes on board ship. Although taken by an unknown photographer, the images are of a uniformly high standard, displaying technical skill and a strong artistic sense.
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