A. HENDERSON, 'HELIOS' and others

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A. HENDERSON, 'HELIOS' and others
Canada, United States, Transvaal, Mozambique and elsewhere, 1870s and later

Two albums, one of seventy-five albumen prints, half-stereo to 12 x 8¼ in., one each signed in the negative A. Henderson and Helios, titled in ink on mounts, initialled L.A.E.C. and dated 1877 on front free end page, full morocco, gilt, oblong 4to., the other with 124 photographs, approx. half albumen prints 9½ x 13¼ in., the others gelatin silver prints, 6 x 8 in. to 8½ x 12 in.,several titled in pencil on mounts, half morocco, oblong lge. 4to; with four other albums one containing 229 snapshots from circular negatives each image size 3½ in. diameter. (6)

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The first album contains five portraits followed by views in Newfoundland, Halifax, Quebec, Montreal, Boston, Arizona, Niagara, American Fork Canon, Yellowstone Park, Cape Horn, San Francisco (Seal Rocks), Yosemite, Colorado and Washington; the second includes landscape views in the Transvaal, industrial buildings, gold mines, railroad stations, tunnels and bridges, native portraits, game hunting groups, Lourenço Marques, Delagoa Bay, Krokodil Poort and other sites along the Transvaal Mozambique border.

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