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... More