Ventes live - Lot 204
[Belgium]
46 photos.
C. 1895-96
€ 400 / 500
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Description du lot
Various sizes, stuck on both sides of cardboard, ms. caption below.
Loose, once kept in an album.
Remarkable set of photos taken by an unknown photographer showing the life near his home, probably at Boninne, and the Namur and Hainaut area. Most of all rural scenes showing children with a wheelbarrow, country roads, children collecting hay and firewood, a boy with a dog cart, but also a man playing the clarinet in front of the house of the photographer (cfr. caption). Views of Hyon, Marche-les-Dames, Pommeroeul, Mons, children in Ciply, the installation of a telephone line in Emines.
Furthermore photos of military exercises with cannons, a guard post in Brasschaat, a military camp in Mechelen, a soldiers' room in Fort de Marchovelette, soup distribution in Fort d'Andoy, etc. A couple of photos of the Netherlands: Utrecht and The Hague.