Live veiling - Lot 196
[Africa]
5 oblong albums with photos of Congo.
1935 to 1960
€ 150 / 200
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Beschrijving lot
803 b/w photos, various sizes from 4 x 6 cm to 18 x 24 cm, some captions in French, a few with photographers' stamp, photos in one album stuck by corners/centre on cardboard ff., the others retained by corners (def. to some albums).
Depicting mainly the everyday life of Belgian families in the Congo (visiting, parties, the New Year's Eve of 1934-1935, births, their houses, several photos at the swimming pool, men fishing posing with their catch...). Some pictures of the travel to Congo (on the Thysville, the Passage of the Line ceremony...), of Leopoldville, at Funa, of a hospital... Two photos with identification of people (architect Leguy, Van Wel, Orban, Jean Beaudinet, Paolo and Vittorio Righini...). Occasional representations of inhabitants. One figuring a sorcerer and another, ablutions.