REALISTIC TRAVELS
'World Travel Tours - India', London: Realistic Travels, n.d. [1910s]
Complete set of 100 stereocards, each mounted on curved grey card with printed number 1-100, individual title, copyright and publisher's credit, in book-form cloth box titled in gilt on spine; with twenty albumen print stereocards, each mounted on cream card, a few titled in ink or pencil on mounts, circa 1860s-70s; and two albumen print stereocards on yellow mounts with printed title Views in India and credit Published by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., each with printed title label on verso. (a lot)
Lot Essay
The earlier loose cards show various aspects of railway construction, possibly near Bombay, including tunnels, cuttings, station buildings, viaducts, workers, staff and the stores.