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Oblong leather-bound folio album (with string-tie binding). The album consists of 244 photographs (all tipped in) of various sizes and origins, but most of the photographs (at least 200) were taken by Williams or his colleagues during their time stationed in Shanghai. Photographs show Marines in the city, natives therein, street scenes, rural scenes, views in temples, Marines marching and in casual situations. Also contains nine photographs captioned in the photos (commercial photos) documenting public beheadings, captured rebels, police action; five hand-colored landscape views; and 17 panoramic views of countryside, the Great Wall, temples, and more. Some captions written in ink.

An album of photos that belonged to an [unidentified] US Marine based in Shanghai in the 1930s. An assemblage of 239 personal photos, plus two larger-format posed group photos of his military unit in uniform and at a formal dinner, together with 68 commercial photos collected at the time around Shanghai, all mounted (removably) at a later date in a Japanese-style album. The personal photos include soldiers at leisure in their barracks, posing with weapons during training, and wearing gas masks for some sort of drill, one with a Military Police Company A, 4th Marines sign dated 1936 in pen on the back, four shots of a small baseball game, and many with friends or family members taken at various locales around the city or on trips to the countryside, including at a Christian church. There are about four pages of photos from a trip upriver, which included a visit to a monument to Frederick Townsend Ward placed by the American Legion. We can see examples of the tense situation in Shanghai at the time, such as people posing next to barbed wire barriers and a sign from 1932 declaring a state of emergency in both English and Chinese. Nine of the photos are from a trip to Guam, depicting soldiers and some sort of a military review in front of an imposing building (the site identifiable because there is a “Guam” banner visible with a magnifying glass)." Also contains some graphic images of people tortured and/or killed. [Descriptive information provided by dealer // JAD2015/5/11]