Booklet with photos of Empress Dowager Cixi and Empress Wanrong.

Leporello 8vo, 10 photo-postcards (?), b/w, 15,1 x 10,5 cm, pasted on cardboard, no captions, no signatures.

Accordion style album with white star patterned covered red cloth over boards, paper label with Chinese ideograms on front.

Probably photo-postcards, reproductions of original photos. Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) was a Chinese regent. She was the de facto supreme ruler of China in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years from 1861 until her death. Empress Wanrong (1906-1946), also known as Xuantong Empress, was the Empress Consort of Puyi, the Last Emperor of China and final ruler of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty.
Joined: 1. Three [Tibetan ?] monks wearing traditional hats holding prayer beads. Probably early 20th c. Original photograph, b/w, silver print ?, 16,5 x 22,2 cm, not signed, stamp "Uitg-Patria" on verso. - 2. Chinese workmen. End 19th c. Original photograph, albumen print, 15 x 20,6 cm, mounted on cardboard, not signed. A group of metal workers holding tools. On the left an anvil. (3 pcs)