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Where the heck is "Swatow", "Swaton" or whatever? [attachmentid=10545] Transcribed by RR: "Soochow Creek I" and "Swatow Thal m. Kak...io v SW." These pencil ones are a bit light for me on first passes. Swatow is indeed the place name. And "Soochow Creek" is a place known to all 1930s United States Marine collectors!
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I think that, more than today, for people on the turn from 19th to 20th century, to be able to travel so far and see such different people and places must have been quite an adventure. We can't even imagine nowadays, since we have all the instruments to travel rapidly (planes, cars, trains,...), to be informed (TV, Internet, radio,...) and to communicate in English almost everywhere... I am currently living in India and can't even imagine how uncomfortable could have been back then for an European to live in such hot and humid country with no comforts at all...
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Other two pictures: the first showing a Chinese "worker" in Schanghai and the second showing Tschinkjang's Harbor on the Jangtse-Kiang. This spelling is copied from the German titles... I think these places might have different spelled names nowadays. [attachmentid=10538] Transcription by RR: "Arbeiter von der Werft in Schanhai (dasselbe von 325) Sud-Chinese Phot. Dr. Hansen." and "Hafen von Tschingkiang am Jantse-Kiang. Blick Flussabw?rts. Im Hintergrund die "Silbereifel" u. SMS Seeadler." Yangtze River mouyth, apparently
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Thank you guys for your nice words. Now I will try to post some more pictures... You can see the SMS "Seeadler" on the first picture. On the pictures themselves I pasted also what's written on the back. Maybe Rick can help me decyphering some of the descriptions... [attachmentid=10537] transciption by RR: "Seeadler vor Hankow" and "Blick auf Amoy. Im Vordergrund Gr?berfeld."
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Here's again the picture of Hansen (staying in the middle covered by the other two officers). From the other picture I am not 100% who is Hansen, because the pictures are not named or they have very short description, never about the people's name on the pictures, unfortunately. @Bob: thanks for your compliments!