Navy Sailor Photo Album Journal Diary Gallipoli Jerusalem Syria

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Navy Sailor Photo Album Journal Diary Gallipoli Jerusalem Syria
Navy Sailor Photo Album Journal Diary Gallipoli Jerusalem Syria
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[Military][Navy][Travel]
Epsel, Henry.
Photo Album Depicting Navy Man's Worldwide Tours.
Seemingly everywhere: 1922-1925. 7” x 11”. String-tied black cloth over flexible card. 142 pages pages with 490 black and white photographs inserted into corner mounts. Most photos measure from 2½” x 3½” to 3” x 5” and all but 14 are captioned. Additionally, 16 pages of typescript bound in before the photos + Epsel's Navy identification card and discharge papers. Album good, because it lacks its front cover and has heavy edge wear; otherwise near fine with near fine or better photos, though some are faded; three photos lacking.
An immense photo album detailing a sailor's exploits on three long cruises in the early 1920s. Henry Epsel spent many months at sea and was rarely without a camera. The album starts with his typescript timeline that provides dates, places and short notes of experiences such as in September 1922 when his group participated in getting tens of thousands of refugees out of Smyrna. He loved Australia, writing,
“most wonderful welcome and reception ever received by sailors. Beautiful women and girls are plenty here. We were forced into company of girls at all times. Most everything free. It did not pay for us to get drunk as we lost out on too much of good times.”
With the exception of Russia, he took photos of nearly every place he visited including Beirut, Jaffa, England, Holland, Cuba, the Panama Canal, California, Athens, Constantinople and more.
There are moving images of makeshift cemeteries at Gallipoli and quite a few street shots in many of the cities. We see worshipers at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, ruins at Balbak, Syria, and ships filled with refugees. A self proclaimed ladies' man, there's a number of photos of the beauties Epsel left on land including “Rotterdam Special”, “my Dutch girl” and “my Spanish queen.”
While this is more a travel album than a military one there's well over 100 photos of ships and maneuvers as well as life aboard his ships.
A comprehensive look at the world through the eyes of a sailor with a good number of well composed images.
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