T. W. Ingersoll (active c.1900) FULL SET OF 100 CARDS

RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR STEREO CARDS, FULL SERIES 1-100, published 1905. A full series of the first set of stereoviews (1-100) published by T. W. Ingersoll depicting the Russo-Japanese War. Stereo cards (100) printed in colour on white card, card size 90 x 180mm, each titled, dated, and numbered lower margin, with a typed caption description verso. Includes views of army life in Dalny, wounded Japanese soldiers in hospital, Japanese soldiers undertaking tasks in their army camp, the front parallel before Port Arthur, Japanese troops firing artillery, members of General Nogi's staff including Major Yamaoka and Major Yamaguchi, and more. This series also includes two cards (77 & 79) which depict Richard Barry, "special war artist and newspaper correspondent...the man who made this series of pictures". Together with card 160 (Gen.Tsuchlyas' Private Mess Camp) from the second series of Russo-Japanese stereoviews, printed in colour on green card; card 14086 (Imperial Palace - The King's Apartments, Seoul, Korea), albumen print stereo card published by Keystone, 1904; and (2) albumen print stereo cards (Primitive life in the "Hermit Kingdom" - winnowing barley in the streets of Chemulpo, Korea and Crude Industries of Korea, where man-power is cheaper than mills - sawing lumber in a lumber yard in Seoul), published by Underwood & Underwood, 1904.