A cloth-covered, oblong album containing 282 b/w photographs [n.d. ca 1914-6, uncaptioned]. The album is a record of a journey undertaken by a French expedition via automobile through China, Tibet, and Mongolia. Photographs appear to be in sequential order of the journey from its beginning in Peking (Beijing) to various destinations in Tibet, Mongolia, and the Gobi desert areas.. The first large photo shows a compound flying the French flag. In others, the various members of the expedition pose with a number of Chinese, along with their early Model T Ford touring cars loaded with expedition supplies. The photos record various sights, people and unusual things that the members of the expedition saw including: Tibetan Lamas, camel caravans, entertainers on tall stilts, dusty towns, including one fort-like compound flying the French flag. The expedition progress to the Great Wall, with photographs of Mongolian yurts, a team of Mongolian ponies extracting one of the cars which was apparently stuck in the soft sand, visits among the Mongols showing people in traditional costume.

.3 linear feet (1 oversize box)

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