Live auction - Lot 569
[Battle of Port Arthur]
31 stereoscopic views.
C. 1905
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
Vintage silver prints, studio credits on cardboard, captions on verso.
Naval battle which marks the start of the Russo-Japanese War. Scenes of war, battlefields, shrapnel, hospitals, portraits of soldiers: "Return home after the war on a transport leaving Dalny for Japan", "Russian camps, meal time", "Underground Russian Mine explosion near the bottom of Antzushan", "The shattered remains of the Russian heroes killed near Port Arthur", etc.