W. HAMMERSCHMIDT and others

Middle eastern portraits and costume studies, 1860s

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W. HAMMERSCHMIDT and others
Middle eastern portraits and costume studies, 1860s
Album containing fifty hand-tinted albumen print cartes-de-visite, a few with printed photographer's credit and title on printed label, others with photographer's credit and title stamped in ink and several with printed label David Robertson & Co....Alexandria, Photograph Vendors... on verso, loosely inserted in pre-cut window mounts, brown embossed morocco (cracked at spine), gilt monogram CGC on front cover, gilt clasp (part missing), g.e., small 8vo.

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Studies of men and women in traditional dress including portraits of women carrying baskets on their heads, a woman breast-feeding her baby, a vegetable-seller, musicians, a man having his head shaved, a man working with cotton, and a portrait of two men with camels.

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