Unidentified photographer Arthur Koppel. Transportable... Lot 18

Unidentified photographer Arthur Koppel. Transportable und feste Eisenbahnen [Transportable and fixed railroads]. Arthur Koppel, Berlin, c. 1890-1900. Portable railroad for earthworks on Mount Gianicolo, Rome. Chain-driven inclined plane with rocking cars on Devil's Lake, near Rome. Electric tramway in Lecce Cataldo. Forestry railroad, Bosnia. Railroad in the Usora valley, Bosnia. Irinowka railroad, Russia. Motor car. Nischni-Nowgorod exhibition, Russia. Work on the Gravehals tunnel, Norway. Beet transport railroad. Menzlin near Anklam, Germany. Stopping point for the electric railroad at the Groenendijk sugar factory, Netherlands. Railroad for earthworks in Cordoba, Argentina. Transport of leached nitrous earth. Salpêtrière, Chile. Shunting track at the port of Valparaiso, Chile. Guano depot in Lobos de Afuera, Peru. Sugar cane transport, Cuba. Santa Ana mine during the President's visit, Mexico. Railroad on the Erima plantation, New Guinea. Soekodono sugar factory, Java. Goluckdihi coal mine in the Iharia basin, India. Arthur Koppel railroad equipment, Siam. Excavation of ancient buildings of Assyrian kings by M. von Luschan, Sendschirli, northern Syria. Transport of sugar cane and bagasse, Egypt. German government railroad to Lome, Togo. Lorenzo Marques Portuguese Railway, Transvaal. Oblong in-4 album, titled on the first cover, composed of 47 albumen prints mounted on cardboard. Legends printed in four languages on the mounts. Some foxing on mounts. Sizes: from 15 x 20 to 20 x 27 cm Founded in April 1876 by Benno Orenstein and Arthur Koppel, Orenstein & Koppel specialized in building railway infrastructures around the world, and used photography to promote the company's activities. Trains and photography: two markers of industrial modernity.