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Asia, perhaps India as we can see temples, pagodas, Indian-looking people etc. Other images
depicting a Greek? harbour.
249 [Fiji - New Caledonia]
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34 diapositives
.
€ 300/600
Images of
Fiji
(archipelago in the South Pacific) showing people of Fiji, the second largest
city
Lautoka
, the
Cannibal Isles
(Solomon Islands), a field of sugar cane, coconut and banana
plantations, etc. Images of
New Caledonia
more specific of
Noumea
(capital of the South Pacific
archipelago and French special collectivity of New Caledonia) showing a tribe,
Mount Mou
, the
habitation of a Kanak chef (Kanak are the indigenous Melanesian inhabitants of New Caledonia),
the Blue River, Onida, pirogues (small boats), a hospital, the Ducos peninsula, etc. Labels: “Newton
Fleetstreet”.
250 [Folkestone]
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407 diapositives
.
€ 1000/1500
Interesting account of Folkestone 1914-1917. During World War I the town became host to some
65000 Belgian refugees fleeing the conflict. Images of trenches, Collège belge, Bureaux belges,
the parish church, life at the beach, the American gardens, fishing, the fishmarket, fishermen, the
harbour station, the grand fleet, the harbour, English recruits, Canadian soldiers who were based
in Folkestone, firemen, derby recruiting, the environment, fox hunting, the
bombing of May 25th
1917
, the catching of a shark, the departure of the boat “Victoire”,
Folkestones Royal Pavilion
Hotel
(most of the building was demolished in 1981-2), Lower Sandgate Road,
Queen’s Hotel
(pulled down in 1963), Grace Hill, the Pier, images of a heavy storm, walks, mackerel fishing, etc.
Most of the slides with a handwritten legend. Among the slides
57 portraits
of refugee families a.o.
of Martha and Henri Thienpont, Marie Timmermans, the family Van den Bogaerde, Boudouin van
Overstraeten, etc.
We join: 59 diapositives about the Red Cross
. Mostly slides for educational use providing
information about the Red Cross’ history, organisation and guidelines such as the uniform for men
and woman, a Red Cross Certificate, the history behind the creation of the flag, hospital ships and
trains, Queen Alexandra (president of the Red Cross from 1905 to 1925), J.H. Dunant (founder of
the Red Cross), etc. Some original images of a training of voluntary aid detachments. Labels: “E.G.
Wood”.
251 [France]
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634 diapositives
.
€ 1000/1500
Images of
Nancy
(palace, ancient theatre, castle, square, etc.),
Lyon
(Les Chartreux, La Basilique
Notre Dame de Fourvière, cathedral,...),
Grenoble
and the
Dauphiné Alps
(glaciers, crevasses,
lakes, summit of the Belledonne and other images of
climbing alpinists
). Images of the
Cluny
Museum
(the room of shoes, of sculptures, of hardware, images of cabinets, closets, wardrobes,
cutlery, furniture, sideboards, tapestry, armour, stained glass, orfevrerie,...). Images of
a “pardon”
in Brittany
(a pardon is a typically Breton form of pilgrimage and one of the most traditional
demonstrations of popular Catholicism in Brittany) and of procession in
Boulogne
showing the
participating groups (the bishop of Arras, Cardinal Bourne, orphans, fishermen’s daughters,
English pilgrims, etc. Images of
Cité de Carcassonne
(gates, towers, plans, defense walls, church),
Pierrefonds
(castle),
Compiegne
, Mont Saint-Michel (abbey, tower, castle, etc.). Furthermore
images of cathedrals, churches, monuments, details of sculptures, abbeys, ruins, art works in
museums, castles, ancient temples in: Allevard, Azay-le-Rideau, Angers, Arles, Blois, Bayeux,
Bourges, Carcasonne, Caen, Chartes, Coutances, Dijon, Le Faouët, Jumièges, Lourdes, Le Mans,
Nimes, Orléans, Paris, Périgeux, Poitiers, Rouen, Reims, Rouget, Rennes, Strasbourg, Sens, Souillac,
Toulouse, Tours, Vezelay, Valence,Versailles, etc.
Images of several
castles
(interior and exterior)
and their surroundings in France: Amboise, Blois, Compiègne, Chambord, Chenonceaux, Chantilly,
Fontainebleau, Pierrefonds, Le Grand Trianon, Versailles.
Cathedrals
(interior and exterior as well
as architectural details): Amiens, Albi, Arles, Angoulême, Bayeux, Bourges, Beauvais, St-Bertrand-
de-Comminge, Chartres, Coutances, Cahors, Carcassonne, Clermont-Ferrand, Châlons, Evreux,
Laon, Le Mans, Noyon, St-Ours, Paris, Poitiers, Périgueux, Rodez, Reims, Strasbourg, Sens, Senlis,