Near East. Album of photographs, c.1920. Oblong folio album, containing 37 large-format gelatin silver prints (230 x 295 mm and similar), depicting scenes in Samaria, Tyre, Hama, 'Moselmieh, beehive village near Baghdad railway', Aleppo, Palmyra, Jerash, Amman and elsewhere, mounted rectos only to heavy black paper stock, manuscript captions in white ink, string-bound in contemporary buckram covers, together with 6 further photograph albums, c.1880 and later, mainly containing studio photographs of architecture, antiquities, works of art and views in Italy, Belgium, Norway and Spain (the Norway views signed in the negative 'J. V'., i.e. John Valentine), one album mainly containing photographs of Spain also with 5 North African street scenes and 2 related ethnographic 'types' (albumen prints, 240 x 190 mm), wear to bindings (qty: 7)

Provenance: John Harold Fawcett CMG (1929-2019), British diplomat.

The dry-plate negatives for many of the photographs in the Near East album can be found in the G. Eric and Edith Matson photograph collection at the Library of Congress (see e.g. call number LC-M32- 1775 [P&P] for 'Moselmieh, beehive village near Baghdad railway').