Old China/Japan Photo Albums 6

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This album, from 1936 contained pictures taken from a tour of SE Asia, Hong Kong, Japan and the South Pacific in 1936 on a Dutch steamer, the SS Grootekerk. I think the album was probably acquired in Singapore, their first stop (or possibly KL or Penang), given the images attached to the cover – one being supposedly humourous. The reverse of the album is a cloth textile covering with floral motifs.