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[Picture postcards. America and Japan]. Lot of ±390 picture postcards,
incl. a few real photo postcards, ±1910-1920, ±225x North-America and ±165x Japan, loosely inserted in contemp. album, folio.
- Leaves of album loosening. Postcards fine.
= Interesting collection: the American picture postcards show i.a. people of the Hopi, Navaho and Mojave tribes (11x), the "California Alligator Farm" (11x), "Glacier Point" (6x), the "Mission San Juan Bautista" (±40x) and scenes at orange farms (13x). The Japanese postcards show temples, castles, shrines, the Grand Hotel Yokohama (6x), women (±40x, partly courtisans, partly in their daily work) and a series of 12 postcards showing the various stages of a Japanese marriage ceremony and the period after childbirth.
€ (200-300) 230
€ (200-300) 230