Bidspirit auction | Photo album on the German

Photo album on the German Navy and life in - Photo album on the German Navy and life in the German colony in China, circa 1900, Album containing 182 original photographs (13 of which are loose), black-and-white images including well-known tourist sites in China, men and families of naval personnel, the crew with Governor Alfred Meyer-Waldeck, 15 photographs of devastated office spaces (one labeled “Boxer Rebellion 1900”), green cardboard cover, album 36.5 x 31.5 cm, bumped and scuffed, photos firmly glued in place, provenance: August Grethe Collection (1884–?), joined the Navy in 1906 and became an ensign in 1912 and later a staff boatswain; northern Germany