[Oceania, New Guinea] Andrew, Thomas (1855-1939) a.o. Photo-album with 34 photographs taken on a trip to Oceania,

ca. 18 x 24 cm (16x) and smaller sizes, w. captions in pencil like "Thomas Andrew", "Oceanie", "Panape", "Fidji", and "Tutuila", one photograph signed "Andrew Apia 1905" in the image, one w. signed caption "360 Tutuila T. Andrew Apia Samoa 1904" in the image, one w. signed caption "Samoan Girls 40 Andrew", mounted on board lvs, orig. mor. w. brass clasp by Wallenfeld-Brill (Strassbourg), a.e.g., obl. folio w. giltlettered "Reise Erinnerungen on frontcover (25 x 32 cm). Bookblock loosening. Very interesting private collection of photographs of indigenous people.

Thomas Andrew (1855–1939) was a prominent New Zealand-born photographer renowned for his extensive documentation of Samoa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also incl. a mounted drawing of a statue w. caption "Erinnerung an den Bismark-Archipel" signed "F. Liebe 1907" in pen. The album also contains 24 photographs of var. sizes of fjords and places like Vatnahalsen, Balholm, Hardanger and Bojumsbrae in Norway, a few signed by a.o. Carl Tietz (2x dated 1910), K. Knudsen (a number, 1 dated 1905) a.o. and incl. nice private photographs.