Photographs - Lot 258

Photographs PHOTO ALBUMS CRUISER IPHIGÉNIE - MARTINIQUE Set of 2 19th-century photographic albums made aboard the ship's ensign cruiser, prints made in 1891 and 1892, containing approximately 157 prints. Photographs of Martinique, Corfu, Albania, Greece (Athens, Salonika), Turkey (Smyrna), Gibraltar, Corsica, Hyères, Tunisia, Algeria (Algiers, Blidah, Oran). Various portraits of natives, sites 2 strong volumes in-4 oblong. Medium-format albumen prints 20x27 cm and 9x13 cm. A large proportion of the photos insolated. All photos captioned on spine. Red percalines, ship's name on upper board, weak inner hinges on first volume. The Iphigénie was a mixed-propulsion (steam and sail) frigate (later reclassified as a cruiser) of the French Navy in service from 1881 to 1905. The Iphigénie was built in Brest from 1877 to 1881. After being used in the first Franco-Malagasy war, the Iphigénie was used from 1886 to 1900 as an Enseignes de Vaisseaux training school for sixteen generations of second-class midshipmen. Her last voyage took place from October 1899 to July 1900 with 65 2nd class midshipmen, including Charles Millot, alias Gervèse. She was decommissioned on December 4, 1901 and demolished in Brest in 1905.