Travel Interest
Dakar, Ascension Island, Brazil [Album], c.1887-1890

An album of 39 albumen prints, image size 8 x10.7cm (smallest) to 12.3 x17cm (largest), pasted down recto/verso onto album pages, overall measuring 18 x25cm, possibly documenting the journey of the French SS Portugal steamship across the Atlantic Ocean to Brazil. Subjects include group portraits of the passengers on board; views of Dakar; Rio de Janeiro; landscape views of Ascension Island; and group portraits of women and men in rural settings, possibly Brazil; among others.

Missing boards and partially disbound.