[Original Photo Album of Americans Traveling in India and Burma]

Various, including India and Buma, [ca. 1928]. Commercial album. 12 1/2" x 9 3/4." Patterned cloth over boards with string binding at left margin holding 24 card leaves with 83 snapshot photographs, typed caption sheets, and 3 color prints adhesive mounted to rectos only. Stationer's ticket to interior of rear board reads: "ESCO / ALBUM/ MIMOSA." Neat and well preserved ; about near fine.

A well-notated, anonymously-shot vernacular snapshot album documenting the travels of a small group of Americans in Burma and India during about 1928. Images are uncommonly sympathetic throughout and capture numerous named locations include Rangoon, Burma and numerous towns and cities (many rural and uncommonly photographed locations) in India including Madras, Bangalore, Wadi, Secunderbad, and Yadgiri.

Contents are undated, though a series of five views of the Elphistone Theatre in Madras shows posterage advertisting a performance by an American Black Minstrelsy troupe called "Wilbur's Black Birds" which toured Eastern Asia in 1928 (see multiple issues of the English language Malaysian newspaper The Straits Times).

An excellent album of American travel in India and Burma with unusual and intriguing content on American Black minstrelsy.