Long White Mountain

BRASTAGI, SUMATRA PHOTO ALBUM.. BRASTAGI PHOTO ALBUM 1921-1928..
A VERY UNUSUAL & FASCINATING PHOTOS OF THE BRASTAGI AREA This early photo album was made by an English-speaking resi- dent of the area, likely a British subject based on a photo of him in the ruins of a building probably burned down, where he stands in shorts & walking stick with penned date of "22 September 1927" at the top. The album is bound in two-tone brown over buff colored silk, cord tied. The last few photos have penned dates, above stating "1921, 1923, 1924, 1928," with an album cover date of "1930" penned in white, as is the name Brastagi. It is possible, that the first Brastagi Hotel was burned to the ground, and was a steel-reinforced structure [where the photograher stands], and this album records the newly-rebuild structure. The album begins with a very lovely three-photo panoramic view of the Brastagi area, a farming village just below a great volcanic mountain. The 2nd shows the hotel before that mountain, nestled in the wooded area. The 3rd shows the int- erior of the hotel, with its stair-case, period rugs & lamp, hat rack, easy chairs. The next shows the "smoking room" with more easy chairs & small tables, and a grand fireplace, clearly this hotel was up in the highlands where quite cool temperatures are common. One can deduct from this, that the Hotel was a great get-away resort for those foreigners who probably live and worked in the low lands where it is sultry with very tropical daily heat. Another shows the verandah, with large view windows, rattan chars and small tables. Next is a dance hall [?] or entertainment room of grand scale, it has many stuffed lizzards & animals on the walls. The formal dining room is beautifully set up with white table cloths, napkins and silverware arranged. Then a nice view from what is possibly a large golf-course surrounding the hotel with a foreign guest in the background all decked out in his white tropical clothes and matching pith helmet. There are three superb photos of ethnic types: first a young girl in native jacket with elaborate silver necklace, wearing a pillow-like head cover and some sort of a folded hand-woven sarong on top; an old woman with large safety pinned jacket, wearing massive silver earrings that clip on to a folded cloth head cover; an old man, wearing a cloth head cover & heavy cloth tunic and home-woven cloth over one shoulder, with a Kris [sword] tucked into his elaborate silver buckle-belt. The next shows a very elaborate native "Long House" typical of Sumatra, with its inverted "boat hull" grass roof & connect- ting buildings. Afterwhich is a lovely photo of a group of several Sumatrans-three young women sitting on bamboo poles on the ground, picking lice from the hair of the girl who is seated before her, while a nu mber of other on lookers are fascinated by the person taking the photo, assuming its the Brit with a camera. Follwed by a few more photos of scenic Sumatran spots: river; six young children along the beach two girls have babies tied to their backs, as they mug for the camera; small native buildings in the background. Another "Long House" complex with several buildings beneith the coco palms, in an idyllic scene. A river scene with a boy standing on a water buffalo, with many other buffalos in the water cooling off. A super shot of "Hotel Brastagi" with a good number of 1920's motor cars, most of which are soft top types, with one showing a foreign man and his two little daughters all dressed in tropical white clothing, a lonely electric pole and light at the far right, with penned date "1921" written above. A photo of a volcanic crator, now a small lake with steam rising-with penned caption "Sibajah" above. Side view of the hotel and its outer buildings, with "1923" penned caption. The ruins of a building, shows the creator of the album..."22 September 1924" penned caption [sited above]. Distant view of the hotel caption "20 Decemb- er 1928," which is the last of the group of 22 b.w. photos. Surely the record of some important job by the photographer, nicely done, with very clear, sharp, UNFADED images, mounted on black stiff paper leaves, there is a mild convex warp to all pages, which does not detract from the overall album. Nicely done, fascinating work. The faint greenish reflection on our scans are a product of our scanner, and are NOT on the actual photos. The hotel was probably booked by foreign visitors, or residents of tropical Sumatra, as an escape from the heat, which was a common way to take well deserved rest and local vacation, which was a part of overseas life. 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[Brastagi 1921-1930, n.p.]. Silk covered oblong photo album, 26 x 18 cm., very good, minor edge rubbing, contents clean, contains 22 large b. w. photos, each ca. 19.5 x 14 cm., one triple size panorama 55 x 13.5 cm., mounted on stiff paper.

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James, H.E.M. The Long White Mountain or A Journey In Manchuria with some account of the History, People, Administration and Religion of that Country, , London published by Longmans, Green, and Co. , 1888
Octavo (over 7-10 inches tall)

, xxiii / 502 pages chromolithographic colour plate frontispiece, cloth backed, folding, colour map, 9 full page black & white plates & various figures in text. First Edition Octavo (over 7-10 inches tall) Hardback , corners and spine edges scuffed, backstrip sunned, Durban Club book plate to front paste down, pale scattered foxing, good+ condition , half navy calf with toned cloth to sides, 5 raised bands to spine with gilt title, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers

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Henry Evan Murchison,James: The Long White Mountain; or, a journey in Manchuria ... with illustrations and a map. British Library, Historical Print Editions, Januar 2011, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 1240923597
bTitle:/b The Long White Mountain; or, a journey in Manchuria ... with illustrations and a map.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b Source Library /b British Librarybr/b Contributors /b James, Henry Evan Murchison; br/b Original Pub Date /b 1888.br/b Physical Description /b xxiii. 502 p. ; 8°.br/b Shelfmark /b 10058.f.30.br/

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Kornfeld, Albert (editor). House & Beautiful Magazine 10/48. New York: Conde Nast, 1948.

The magazine, in illustrated wrapper is in VERY GOOD(minus) condition. The back wrapper is detached, chipping, closed tearing to editions, the spine has cracking/chipping tearing, open tear to bottom front wrapper edge (about 1.5"). 242 pages. ON THE COVER: Mrs. John Chambers Hughes wanted red damask in the drawing room of her Park Avenue house and asked her decorator, James Amster, to interpret it in the modern feeling. The lighting of this room is by Rudolf Wendel. Articles include: DECORATION: THERE IS NOTHING MORE PERSONAL THAN TASTE: The problem#1 MRS. VINCENT ASTOR likes cornflower blue, she asked interior designer GEORGE STACEY to give her a living room of that color. She wanted the room to incorporate a pair of eagle console tables from the old Astor house. Although she and her husband have a country house at Rhinebeck on the Hudson, they regard their Gracie Square Apartment as home. Color photographs; The problem #2 MRS. WARREN PERSHING wanted her Park Avenue duplex to be as gaily livable as a country house. For the living room she wanted a cheerful scheme and a sense of informality. Interior designer WILLIAM BALDWIN provides a solution. Color photograph; Problem #3 MRS WALTER HOVING has an unusually large and long living room in her New York apartment. Interior designer WILLIAM PAHLMANN provides a solution. Color photograph; Problem #4 MRS. DIEGO SUAREZ wants the sweep of green lawn beyond the shore line of Shinnecock Bay and wants the same feeling in the living room of her home in the Southampton Dune. Interior decorator MRS. ARCHIBALD BORWN provides a solution. Color photograph; Problem #5 MRS. GEORGE L. COLEMAN, JR has definite requirement for the living room of her Pebble Beach California home. Interior decorate MRS. FRANCES A. ELKINS provides the solution; TWO POINTS OF VIEW: These New York living rooms express two extremes of taste. French furniture silhouetted against tall screens in the Robert McKinneys' apartment (Interior design by Paul Kent; Brick, wood, cast iron and rough fabrics combined in Henry C. Petter's brownstone house (Interior design by Florence Knoll of Hans Knoll Associates). Black & white photos; Five Halls which evidence personal taste: 1. French prints pattern Charlest Thomspon's long narrow hall. 2. Chinese silk on the walls of Mrs. Jesse I Straus' Mt. Kisco loggia. 3. Cartouche frames a Venetian glass sconce at Mr. Arthur H. Kudners (interior designer William Pahlmann). 4. Vines echo the green outdoors at the Wellington Hendersons' (interior designer Frances A. Elkins). 5. Blue roses on white wallpaper, geometry in white on a black floor (interior decorator James Asmter); TO LIVE AS WELL AS YOU LOOK; SHOP WITH YOUR ROOM IN MIND; THE CASE FOR ORIENTAL RUGS; GARDEN APARTMENTS are mushrooming up all over the U.S.A. Glen Oaks Village, near New York is typical. Tenants thorniest decorating problem concerns the windows; APPOINTMENTS; ADD AS NEEDED Here is furniture which can be bought piece by piece to make a harmonious whole; GARDENING; TYRANTS AMONG PLANTS by Richard Sudell. Unless firmly controlled, the delicate vine, the glossy-leaved shrub or the tree, so appealing when young, may rapidly become a plant montster, overrunning the garden; THIS GREEN GARDEN ADDS A ROOM Mr. And Mrs. Brooke Cadwallader's French Provincial house near Stamford, Connecticut; DRAFTED TO FIGHT HUNGER by Richardson Wright; HOUSE & GARDEN'S PRINT NO. 8; ARCHITECTURE: HOUSE WITH A PERSONAL TOUCH Mrs. Thompson Dickinson keys her Pasadena house to her own and California's informal way of living. Woodbridge Dickinson, Jr. and Lawrence Test, architects. Includes floor plan and numerous black & white photos; CASUAL AND COMFORTABLE Mr. And Mrs. Julius Lipton' country house in Arrowhead Point, Connecticut. Architecture by Burton Ashford Bugbee.; HOW TO CUT YOUR HEATING BILL; GENERAL: PICASSO THE POTTER, At the French Riviera village of Vallauris was the scene of a vernissage that rivaled those of the Paris art season. In a modest booth at the village fair, Picasso was exhibiting 39 pieces of pottery, results of his most recent creative outburst. All were made at the pottery factory of his friend Madame Ramier. Black & white photos of the Duchess of Windsor; CONTINENTAL SCRAPBOOK The Salon des Artistes Decorateurs present recent trends in European design; THE CALIFORNIAN AND THE OYSTER by Helen Evans Brown. The West Coast has its own oyster recipes which antedate the Gold Rush. Table set for dinner in Hattie Carnegie's elegant dining room. The dress featured in the color photo is a Hattie Carnegie orginal; HOW TO KEEP A KITCHEN OUT OF SIGHT; BRAZIL IS MORE THAN SUGAR LOAF MOUNTAIN; TURNTABLE; THIS IS AMERICA by Davile L. Cohn; CLIFF-SIDE HOUSE Mrs. A.H. Donnelly Narragansett Bay house by architects George Howe and Robert Montgomery Brown. Paperback condition: Very Good in Wraps p3457

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