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Border Defense Commemorative Photographic Album: The Great Wall, the Asia Express, and Hsinking, 1937 (142 Plates)
Border Defense Commemorative Photographic Album — The Great Wall, the Asia Express, and Hsinking, 1937
A rich commemorative photographic album of 1937 gathering 142 plates that range across some of the most evocative subjects of 1930s Northeast Asia: the ramparts of the Great Wall of China, the celebrated Asia Express of the South Manchuria Railway, and the planned capital city of Hsinking, among other scenes. Compiled by Oka Tatsuzo, the album was assembled as a personal and institutional record of the border defense period.
With its substantial sequence of original photographs, the volume functions as a wide-ranging visual chronicle of the region — military, infrastructural, and urban — at a single charged moment in its history. The presence of the streamlined Asia Express, the era's most famous express train, alongside views of the Great Wall and the new capital, makes the album an unusually vivid survey of place and period.
A substantial primary source for collectors of prewar East Asian photography, railway history, and the visual record of the Manchurian frontier.
Offered by KT Vintage, drawing on decades of trusted international sales to discerning collectors and institutions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.
Description & Historical Context
Border Defense Commemorative Photographic Album — The Great Wall, the Asia Express, and Hsinking, 1937
A rich commemorative photographic album of 1937 gathering 142 plates that range across some of the most evocative subjects of 1930s Northeast Asia: the ramparts of the Great Wall of China, the celebrated Asia Express of the South Manchuria Railway, and the planned capital city of Hsinking, among other scenes. Compiled by Oka Tatsuzo, the album was assembled as a personal and institutional record of the border defense period.
With its substantial sequence of original photographs, the volume functions as a wide-ranging visual chronicle of the region — military, infrastructural, and urban — at a single charged moment in its history. The presence of the streamlined Asia Express, the era's most famous express train, alongside views of the Great Wall and the new capital, makes the album an unusually vivid survey of place and period.
A substantial primary source for collectors of prewar East Asian photography, railway history, and the visual record of the Manchurian frontier.
Offered by KT Vintage, drawing on decades of trusted international sales to discerning collectors and institutions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.
Collation
| Category | Books |
|---|---|
| Condition | acceptable |
| SKU | N0000002466 |
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