Norwegian steam ship photograph album, containing 73 photographs, 1905

Hardcover. Very Good. An engaging Norwegian steam ship photograph album, containing 73 photographs, albumen silver prints, 82 x 110 mm or 110 x 82 mm, June-July 1905. Taken by a Birmingham doctor during a trip from Grimsby to Tromso and Bergen aboard the polytechnic steam yacht Ceylon, accompanied by pages of his manuscript annotations and diary entries, Limp pebbled leather album, gilt, a bit rubbed, some of the photographs a little faded.The voyage of a Birmingham doctor aboard the Polytechnic Steam Yacht "Ceylon" from Grimsby to Tromso and Bergen in June-July 1905. He kept a photographic record of the trip and also sent letters home, both being used in the writing up of this narrative. The photographs show Norwegian scenery such as the Seven Sisters, the Svartisen glacier, the midnight sun, mountains on the Loften Islands and on the mainland facing; there are also some of Lapp encampments, reindeer herds and Lapps selling goods in Tromso. Two of the Tromso photographs also show a whaler "about to leave as relief ship to Ziegler North Pole Expedition"; according to the text, "In the harbour, a trim looking whaler was very noticeable. We learned later that she was about to leave as a relief ship to the American Ziegler North Pole Expedition which is at present working from Franz Josef Land".