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"The Doctors' Album" - a magnificent photo album. Paris 1904-1905

Opening price: $250

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Album de l'internat 1904-1905, offert par la compagnie des eaux minérales de Pougues et de Carabana - "Album of the boarding school 1904-1905, offered by the mineral water company of Pougues and Carabana" - a large and magnificent album with 32 large group photographs In black and white of doctors and specialists in the various hospitals in Paris in the years 1904-1905 - first edition. The photographs are glued on thick cardboard pages and are impressive in their greenish design. Original half leather binding with gilt lettering. Gilt engraved pages.

Each page in the album is dedicated to a group of interns from a different French hospital with the title of the hospital's name at the top of the page, below the photograph on each page is a quote from a famous medical personality dealing with the medical benefit in the medical field of the hospital that the page represents. Also, the names of the specialized doctors photographed appear on each page in print below the photograph. Each photograph is surrounded by a black frame with leaves and flowers. The company also released similar albums in the following years, before us we have the first album in the series.

Album: 33x25 cm. Photographs: 18x13 cm. Clean pages. Good- Very Good Condition.

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216. "The Doctors' Album" - a magnificent photo album. Paris 1904-1905