Album with photos from Congo featuring Albert Charles Boone and his brother Ferdinand.

48 albumen prints, c. 11,3 x 16,4 cm, slipped-in, ms. legends (some photos with reduced contrast).

Kept in a 4to-size red cloth decor. album.

Photo album with portraits of Albert Charles Boone (Aalst 1869-1908 Kikanda), his brother Fernand (1871-1901), Directeur Bossaert and Henri Verlooy (on his deathbed after an explosion). The album shows a.o. the campment of Boone, him during an elephant and buffle hunt, the Alostville steamer, a salt caravan, Kassaï women, the cutting of death hippopotames, the Makoundi tribe and village, the Force publique of Kivula, Kivula village, the house of Ferdinand, the cemetary of Kivula with the graves of Fernand Boone & Henri Verlooy, a river crossing, indigenous children, etc. After his military service, Boone embarked in Antwerp to serve in the Congo Free State as a sergeant of the Force publique, the army of the Congo Free State. In April 1892 he became chef de poste in Dungu (Northeast Congo). In 1894 he accompanied Van Kerckhove's expedition to the Nile. In 1895 he was stationed as a lieutenant in Bima, Uele and took part in a second expedition. In 1899 he switched to "La Centrale Africaine" of mayor Leo Gheeraerdts. This company was responsible for rubber and ivory exports and was active in the Kasai basin. He then worked there as a director for a caoutchouc company of La Centrale Africaine, founded by residents of Aalst. Boone died in 1908 due to an illness, only 39 years old.