Chinese funeral ("Chinese-burial") - the picture shows a funeral procession on the street

Postcard and photo album of the frigate captain of the Imperial Navy Josef Poock (1859-1944), who came from Sigmaringen and extensively documented his seafaring trips around 1900 in the then German colonies of Tsingtau and Somoa Islands. Images such as captions reveal the unmistakable "colonial" gaze of the captain and collector.

Letters of a German top paymaster from Tsingtao in the German protectorate Kiautschu** Size: 160 letters, 300 postcards Processing: completely transcribed; not digitized Planning: feeding into the Kaliope-Verbund (2018)

colored card: Matoimochi, with Rumphs signature stamp postcard: Harlekinade Berlin 1912- postcard; A citizens' ball 1803. 35. anniversary of the association of pupils at the K.K.G.M. on 6. February 1913 in the zoo printed card: Dôjôji, with signature stamp Rumpfs postcard on Gerhard Rumpf, dated Tsingtau 1.9.1908, with drawing of Port Said postcard on Heinrich Rumpf, dated. 25.4. 08, with drawing Chinese navy uniformsColored drawing of a sitting Chinese girl, not signed- printed map: fisherwomen in Inage, bay of Tokyo, with hull signature stamp-Colored drawing: boats in China. Port [Tsingtau?] with rowing women, not signed postcard on Andreas hull, with drawing of Gibraltar, dat. 16.11.1907- color drawing: Prague, small-sided individual sheets with vocabulary lists, English, French, Portuguese, partly menus concerning- leaflet with various aioli-recipes, fair copy with title-initial-postcard of Marianne on/for Alice torso- plate 9 (Japanese), tracing - 3 sheets. with color drawings, Chinese. Military 1 sheet with pencil drawings, a.o. ???- pencil drawing: Frauenkopf: Taverne, 12./13,II,31

Picture postcard collection with about 300-400 picture postcards to the German colonies Deutsch-Ostafrika, Deutsch-Südwestafrika, Kamerun, Togo, Deutsch-Neuguinea, Samoa and Kiautschou. Collector's picture albums.