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Souvenir and travel albums of an extensive world trip of Otto Strakosch (1868 - 1942). Circa 1906 -1909. Over circa 1500 vintage collodion paper, platinum and other prints in 5 albums . Various sizes, most circa 13 x 8,5 cm. Mounted to boards, bound in full red leather albums (edges rubbed, scuffing, some stains, 3 spines damaged), with gilt-stamped title Meine Reise um die Erde and Strakosch's name on front covers. Comprehensive suite of five souvenir albums compiled by the family of Otto Strakosch, a member of the wealthy Jewish Viennese family and partner in the Bernard Strakosch & Sohn shoe manufacturing company, founded in 1872. It enjoyed great success until the 1930s. The firm was Aryanzied in 1938 and Otto and his family emigrated to England in early 1939, where he died in 1942. Due to his extensive travelling Strakosch was considered an expert on China and Japan and he gave several lectures on these cultures. The first album includes a map with the complete travel route starting in Vienna via Italy, Suez, Hongkong, China, Japan, America, England, France, and then returning to Vienna. Postcards and menu cards from the SMS Roon , Norddeutscher Lloyd and the Lusitania are loose in one album and the dignified interior design of the Lusitania and some genral views are captured in a suite of large photographs. The following subjects are divided among the five albums: Hongkong, Shanghai, military events, some images of the Boxer Revolt; Tokyo, Nagasaki, Yokohama; oil fields and industy in America, Yosemite Park, Niagara Falls, New York, Liverpool, Windsor, Paris and many others. Includes circa 590 views of China and many views of America with family portraits. – Some surface scuffing, some light fading in edges, a few with tears, otherwise most prints in very good condition.