[Title printed in gilt on upper cover]: Karafuto shinrin Shashin chō 樺太森林写真帖 [Photo Album of Sakhalin Forest]
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137 tipped-in photographs (each 105 x 149 mm.), with printed legends pasted beneath, on thick boards covered in gray paper. Oblong folio (323 x 450 mm.), orig. flexible boards, sewed together with thick decorative green cord. [Sakhalin Island or Japan]: 1912-30.
A fine and rare photographic record of Sakhalin Island.
Ownership of the resource-rich Sakhalin (Karafuto) Island, located at the far eastern end of Russia and north of Japan, passed between Japan and Russia several times in the last two centuries. Japanese fishermen first settled on the island's southern coasts; the Russians began to occupy the northern part in 1853. In an agreement in 1855, the two nations decided to share the island, but in 1875, Russia acquired the entire island in exchange for the Kuril island chain. In the Treaty of Portsmouth of 1905 following the Russo-Japanese War, victorious Japan gained Sakhalin south of the 50th parallel. After the Russian Revolution, the Japanese occupied the entire island, but in 1924 they withdrew from the northern half. At the end of World War II, Russia was awarded all of Sakhalin.
Sakhalin Island is rich in forest products (and oil and gas, discovered in the 20th century), and the seas surrounding it are favored fishing areas for salmon, cod, herring, and crab. In 1908, Japan developed Toyohara City 豊原市 (originally Vladimirovka and today's Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) in the southern part of the island and in 1912 established there an agricultural station (Ōsawa shikenrin 大澤試験林) for forestry studies.
This album contains 137 photographs showing the landscapes and activities of the Japanese on Sakhalin: the vast forests; logging activities; transporting logs down rivers; vast quantities of logs stacked, ready for milling; large milling and pulping factories; furniture and containers manufactured from local woods; indigenous peoples and long-time Russian settlers; wildlife including black foxes, seals, and deer; members of the Karafuto ski club; rice paddies; piers built out into the sea; irrigation canals; railroads; buildings ranging from tents and log cabins (an outpost of the agricultural station) to the governor's building in Toyohara City, clearly built earlier by the Russians; shrines, etc.
We find no copy in WorldCat.
In nice condition.
A fine and rare photographic record of Sakhalin Island.
Ownership of the resource-rich Sakhalin (Karafuto) Island, located at the far eastern end of Russia and north of Japan, passed between Japan and Russia several times in the last two centuries. Japanese fishermen first settled on the island's southern coasts; the Russians began to occupy the northern part in 1853. In an agreement in 1855, the two nations decided to share the island, but in 1875, Russia acquired the entire island in exchange for the Kuril island chain. In the Treaty of Portsmouth of 1905 following the Russo-Japanese War, victorious Japan gained Sakhalin south of the 50th parallel. After the Russian Revolution, the Japanese occupied the entire island, but in 1924 they withdrew from the northern half. At the end of World War II, Russia was awarded all of Sakhalin.
Sakhalin Island is rich in forest products (and oil and gas, discovered in the 20th century), and the seas surrounding it are favored fishing areas for salmon, cod, herring, and crab. In 1908, Japan developed Toyohara City 豊原市 (originally Vladimirovka and today's Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) in the southern part of the island and in 1912 established there an agricultural station (Ōsawa shikenrin 大澤試験林) for forestry studies.
This album contains 137 photographs showing the landscapes and activities of the Japanese on Sakhalin: the vast forests; logging activities; transporting logs down rivers; vast quantities of logs stacked, ready for milling; large milling and pulping factories; furniture and containers manufactured from local woods; indigenous peoples and long-time Russian settlers; wildlife including black foxes, seals, and deer; members of the Karafuto ski club; rice paddies; piers built out into the sea; irrigation canals; railroads; buildings ranging from tents and log cabins (an outpost of the agricultural station) to the governor's building in Toyohara City, clearly built earlier by the Russians; shrines, etc.
We find no copy in WorldCat.
In nice condition.
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[Title printed in gilt on upper cover]: Karafuto shinrin Shashin chō 樺太森林写真帖 [Photo Album of Sakhalin Forest]
Author
SAKHALIN ISLAND
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