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Album consists of a total of 466 images on 56 leaves + inside front cover, including at least 18 real photo postcards (RPPCs), 17 photographs or RPPCs of cartoons and one photo of a map. Sizes vary: most approximately 3 x 4 inches or 3 x 5 inches, although a handful are substantially smaller (1.5 x 2.5 in.) or larger (6.5 x 8.5 in.). An estimated 135 photographs and RPPCs appear to have been commercially produced for tourists, either because they have captions in the plate or because they show typical scenes of the place being visited, usually empty of people and/or without named subjects; sometimes these are also of a different quality or were taken at a different time of year than the vernacular photographs of the same place. All photos either captioned in white on the leaves by the compiler or captioned in the plate; additional writing in pencil to the backs of some photos. The album is in largely chronological order, following our unnamed sailor's service aboard the USS Albany (1921-23?), detailing his time spent in the Philippines, Hong Kong, various locales in China, and Vladivostok; Huron (1924), travels in China; Pecos (1924-25?), Panama Canal/ Canal Zone; Quail (1926-27), Canal Zone, Ecuador, and Nicaragua; and Langley (1927-29?), San Diego. At all of these locations, the photographs capture fascinating details of shipboard life, from a raucous 1925 Neptune ceremony during the crossing of the equator aboard the USS Pecos, to battle practice aboard the USS Huron, to a seaplane's failed landing on the USS Langley, the first aircraft carrier in US history. Additionally, they provide a striking record of the places visited and the interactions of the area's inhabitants with US troops. This is particularly notable in Russia and China, where the considerable majority of the photos were taken and/or acquired. Vladivostok in 1922 was a last holdout against the revolutionary Red Army, finally becoming part of Soviet Russia in November of that year, after the last of interventionist forces from Japan, China and the US (who had troops on active duty there from the Albany from 1919-1920) departed and the White Army resistance collapsed. Included in the album are images of the city's YMCA, Russian soldiers at a train station, American sailors posing with Russian women while a Japanese soldier hustles past, a Russian armored car, a ship that once flew the US flag now flying the Czechoslovakian flag, and much more. The photos of China are equally revealing. Although a number of the photos here are either scenery or were most likely commercially produced, they nevertheless provide scarce images of the country at the time. Chinese junks line the harbors, a Sikh policeman poses with an American soldier in Shanghai, beggars and peddlars make their way through the streets of Pekin (Beijing), American sailors drink at an establishment called Annie's in Tientsin (Tianjin), a Chinese man gets his hair cut by a barber in an alleyway, and so on. Three additional sections, not in chronological order, close the album: one, most likely RPPCs, of the 1923 Honda Point Disaster; another, apparently vernacular photos of an undated trip aboard an unknown ship down the Yangtze River; and a third, a series of RPPCs and commercial photographs of various US Navy ships and planes, Chinese city scenes, and a 15-panel cartoon depicting sailor life in the Asiatic fleet, including racist caricatures of Chinese people. Thirty-three additional photos of family and friends are also included in the middle of other sections, possibly taken when the sailor was home on leave. An altogether remarkable photo album, providing a scarce record of American naval life in the Pacific immediately following WWI. [From dealer description]

A visual record of U.S. Marine and island life during the interwar years on Guam in 1930. The album consists of numerous scenes on the island, including images of Piti, Apra Harbor, several beaches, various beach structures, town architecture and infrastructure, animal life and jungle settings. Several of the images of native islanders and portraits of Marines and other Americans are present as well. The majority of photographs depict life for the U.S. Marines, and detail their activities, such as military exercises, parades, artillery practice, and camping expeditions. They also show the Marine facilities, such as the barracks and other military structures, as well as a number of military vehicles, naval transports and Marine aircraft. A small portion documents a contemporary trip to China. [From dealer description]

Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. L.G Bartel, mostly likely the Protestant missionary Loyal Houlding Bartel and his wife Susan Schultz Bartel, who moved to China together just after Loyal's graduation from Moody Bible Institute and Northern Baptist Theological Seminary. Susan left China in 1948 but Loyal died remained and died there in 1971.

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.

Photograph album filled with approximately 540 photos mounted and/or tipped-in with corners, ranging in size from 2-1/4" x 3-1/4" to 3-1/2" x 5-1/4", many with neatly written captions in white ink underneath. Photos are accompanied by a few printed postcards, a General Mess Menu for Christmas Day [1934], a printed list for series of photos on a Chinese Funeral procession, and a few laid-in souvenir views. Approximately 11 photos removed at some point in the album's history.
Chronicles the China Station career of Royal Navy sailor Ernest Hawkens. Photographs include maps of the Cornwall’s routes to Asia and back, depictions of naval activities, as well as photos of the ship, scenery, and local inhabitants and local events in the Philippine Islands, Japan, and China.

Memoirs, other writings, diaries, correspondence, financial records, printed matter, and photographs, relating to Russian émigré affairs. Includes papers of W. George Yourieff, husband of Alexandra Yourieff. Also includes material relating to the earlier brief marriage of Alexandra Yourieff in the 1920s to the Norwegian relief worker (subsequently Nazi collaborator) Vidkun Quisling.