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Item #8939 [Original Extensive Autograph Letter Signed by a Female American Presbyterian...

[Original Extensive Autograph Letter Signed by a Female American Presbyterian Missionary in China, Written to Her Parents and Talking about Her Recent Missionary Trips around Weifang (Shandong Province), Preaching to Chinese Christians, Staying Overnight in a Village School “with the Heat & the Fleas,” Giving an Eye-Witness Account of the Bohai Sea Earthquake on June 13, 1888, and Discussing or Mentioning Several American Missionaries, including Her Husband James Boyd Neal, Dr. John L. Nevius, Rev. James H. Laughlin and his wife Annie, Lottie Moon, Margaret Jane Hayes, and Julia B. Mateer].

Tang Wu, 20 April 1888; Wei Hien, 19 May 1888; & Tengchowfoo, 16 June, 1888.

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Item #8934 [Historically Important Collection of 108 Large Original Gelatin Silver Photos in Two...
[AMERICANS IN BURMA & INDIA – WW2]

[Historically Important Collection of 108 Large Original Gelatin Silver Photos in Two Albums, Taken by the Members of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the China Burma India Theatre of WW2; the Photos Show the Recapture of Northern Myanmar around Myitkyina, Construction and Maintenance of the Ledo Road from Assam to Kunming (China), American Military Facilities in Assam and Kolkata, Surgeries and Medical Procedures in Portable and Evacuation Hospitals near Myitkyina and Shingbwiyang, American Military Recreational Facilities in India, American Military Commanders and Servicemen, Native Members of the American Kachin Rangers, &c.].

Ca. April 1944 – August 1945.

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Item #8102 [Album with 121 Early Albumen Photographs, Showing Kolkata, Hooghly River, Railway...
[INDIA – WEST BENGAL]

[Album with 121 Early Albumen Photographs, Showing Kolkata, Hooghly River, Railway Station in Bardhaman, Damodar River, a “Mosque and Tank on the Hooghly Road,” a “Ruined Temple at Chandernagore [Chandannagar],” and Numerous Portraits of the Local People - Including Sellers of Toddy (Palm Wine), Curd, Poultry, Crockery, Parched Rice, Carpenters, Snake Charmers, Bullock Cart Drivers, Palanquin Carriers, Coolies, Basket Makers, a Butcher, Playing Children, Musicians, a Female Mill Grinder, a Knife Grinder, a Cotton Cleaner, etc.]

Ca. 1870s.

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Item #6819 Zapiski Flota Kapitana Golovnina o Prikliucheniyakh Yego v Plenu u Yapontsev v 1811,...

Zapiski Flota Kapitana Golovnina o Prikliucheniyakh Yego v Plenu u Yapontsev v 1811, 1812 i 1813 Godakh. S Priobshcheniyem Zamechaniy Yego o Yaponskom Gosudarstve i Narode [Notes of Fleet Captain Golovnin about his Adventures in Japanese Captivity in 1811, 1812 and 1813. With the Supplement of His Notes about Japanese State and People]; [In 3 Parts]; [BOUND WITH:] RIKORD, Petr Ivanovich (1776-1855). Zapiski Flota Kapitana Rikorda o Plavanii Ego k Yaponskim Beregam v 1812 i 1813 Godakh i o Snosheniyakh s Yapontsami [Notes of Fleet Captain Rikord about his Sailing to the Japanese Shores in 1812 and 1813, and His Relations with the Japanese].

St. Petersburg: Morskaya [Naval] Typ. 1816.

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Item #10012 [Album with 76 Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken and Collected...
[VIETNAM]

[Album with 76 Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken and Collected by a Resident of French Colonial Cochinchina and Showing Saigon, Tan An, Tra Vinh, Can Tho, Bac Lieu, Soc Trang, the Mansion and Tomb of Tran Ba Loc in Ca Bei, a Lao Village, Scenes of a River Regatta and Public Festivities, Ruins of Angkor Wat, Portraits of Lao Warriors, Vietnamese Indigenous People from the Central Highlands, Furniture Factory Workers, French Colonial Residents and Their Families, &c.].

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