Two albums: Leather album with decorative silver embellishments and clasp, with cyrillic monogram and initials, containing approx. 220 mounted silver photographs of the construction and route of the China Eastern Railroad; various dignitaries and officials; cities, towns and villages along the route; railroad engines and cars, etc. The images vary in size from approx. 9x11 down to snapshot size; the album is 11x15. c.1900 to ??. * Approx. 150 photographs loose in sleeves in a "flip" album, most snapshot size or smaller, of trains, engines, bridges, etc., in China. c.1937. * Plus 8 photographs of trains and stations, approx. 6½x9, mounted on both sides of 4 loose album leaves.

Fascinating pictorial record of the China Eastern Railroad, constructed in China by Russia at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, to connect with the Trans-Siberian Railroad into Manchuria and Port Arthur. The albums belonged to Eugeny Nikolaivich Voitoff, who lived in Harbin, China, and was traffic director of the railroad. The railroad was begun in 1897, part of the concessions given by the Chinese to Western powers, and opened to traffic in 1901. The southern spur (Changchun to Port Arthur) was ceded to Japan in 1905. Between 1917 to 1922 the railroad was under the jurisdiction of "White" Russian forces, with the Soviet Union taking control after that.