[South America]: [Travel]:

$2,850 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

[EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED AND PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED PHOTOGRAPHIC SCRAPBOOK OF AMERICANS TRAVELING IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA]. An illuminating and entertaining illustrated scrapbook documenting the travels of six friends on a trip to Mexico, Panama, and various points in South America, including Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil in 1938. One of the opening leaves has four photographs of the travellers, comprised of two elderly couples and two single women captioned, "Rogues to the Pampas!" Throughout the album, there are numerous photographs, both vernacular and professional, a great many capturing locals in native dress, as well as images of scenery and the city streets. The photographs are accompanied by detailed descriptive annotations which are colorful and entertaining, but also display the compilers' uncharitable to openly offensive views towards some of the foreign peoples and cultures they visit.The voyage began January 20, 1938, aboard the Japanese NYK Liner S.S. Bokuyo Maru. There are numerous menus and other ephemera from the ship, as well as a photograph of the Japanese crew signed by the ship's officers. The first photographs depict Manzanillo, Mexico a week later, with captions such as "Worst city we ever saw, says the man from Capetown, South Africa, who has been around the world," and "Sid Thompson says, 'I bet if these Mexicans had a good hot bath they'd find a suit of underwear they didn't know they had!" They picture a "peddler of hats and drink"

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