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| James Ricalton/Underwood & Underwood - James Ricalton, Our Man in China. Riding a Camel ("Scenes in Peking") |
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Contact: Charles Schwartz
Email: cms@cs-photo.com
Phone: 212-534-4496
Company: Charles Schwartz Ltd.
Company: 21 East 90th Street
Company: New York, NY 10128 USA
URL: http://www.cs-photo.com
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| Ref.#: 10857 |
| Price: $950 |
| Medium: Vintage Gelatin Silver Print |
| Image Date: 1910c |
| Print Date: 1910c |
| Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.5 in. (241 x 191 mm) |
| Photo Country: China |
| Photographer Country: United States (USA) |
| Description: Ricalton is shown perched on a camel in Peking, with his camera equipment and a rifle.
On verso is Underwood & Underwood credit stamp and typed caption: PHOTO BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD SCENES IN PEKING. PEKING. CHINA: -- Ready for a "Negative" expedition--our photographer, James Ricalton on board a Chinese ("camel") "Transport". 4219.
James Ricalton (1844-1929) was a school-teacher, traveler, inventor, and photographer. He was the first permanent school-teacher in Maplewood, NJ and remained there for most of his life. His passion was travel and photography, and he traveled extensively during school vacations, circumnavigated the world seven times. Ricalton was a prolific photographer, leaving over 100,000 images, among them a large collection of stereoscopic images.
RIcalton was sent on two missions by Thomas Edison and also served as a war photographer during the Boxer Rebellion in China, the Russo-Japanese War, and the installation of Edward VII as Emperor of India in 1901. The Underwood company used his photographs to illustrate geography books. 1 |
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