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70/2327 Photographs Ned Ind Commissie voor de Internationale Tentoonstelling te San Francisco 1915 70/2327 Photographs Ned Ind Commissie voor de Internationale Tentoonstelling te San Francisco 1915 70/2327 [Photographs]. "Ned.-Ind. Commissie voor de Internationale Tentoonstelling te San Francisco 1915". Album containing 45 mounted gelatin silverprints, each ±17x23 cm. or vice versa, printed index mounted at the beginning, contemp. giltlettered cl. w. on upper pastedown publ. ticket of Boekhandel Visser & Co. (Weltevreden etc.), obl. folio. - Trifle foxed. = The 'Panama-Pacific International Exposition' was held in 1915 on occasion of the opening of the Panama Canal. This album focuses mainly on the industry in Indonesia, no doubt for trade purposes, which would benefit greatly from the Panama canal. It shows images of (railway) bridges, plantations (coffee, rubber, cinchona, hemp), but also incl. some nice landscape views and views of the botanical garden "'s Lands Plantentuin" in Buitenzorg.