File:Japan 1914 - 1918 - album (by Elstner Hilton).jpg

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This is the first page of Elstner Hilton's album of photographs he took while living in Japan between 1914 and 1918.

As a salesman for the Atkins Saw Company, Elstner Hilton traveled to the Far East to sell commercial sawmills in the early years of the 20th century. So I think of him as a reverse Johnny Appleseed, on the vanguard of deforestation that continues to this day.

Be that as it may, Elstner was an avid photographer, a bon vivant, an adventurer, and a dandy. That is an intriguing combination of traits for an expatriate in any era, doubly so for someone living in Asia during the first decades of the last century.

Elstner Hilton was my father-in-law's brother, which makes him my spouse's uncle.

It may take me many months to do justice to this album. However, a journey of a thousand pictures begins with a single uploading.

Album page size, excluding binding: 346mm x 225mm.
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Source Japan 1914 - 1918
Author A.Davey from Portland, Oregon, EE UU
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  • Japan 1914 - 1918
    I own the originals of these unpublished family photos. ... As a salesman for Atkins Saw Company, Elstner Hilton traveled to the Far East to sell commercial sawmills in the early years of the 20th century. ... Elstner Hilton was my father-in-law Frank Hilton's* brother, which makes him my spouse's uncle. ...
    * Elstner Hilton's brother Frank Hilton compiled a scrapbook of photographs, clippings and other ephemera at Stanford University between 1907 and 1911. ...
    ps: I now have reason to believe that the photos of Japan may be stock photos that Uncle Elstner purchased and pasted into his album. There may be some exceptions: the images of his sister, Miriam, and photos of logging operations in the Phillippines.

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by A.Davey at https://flickr.com/photos/40595948@N00/2394487940. It was reviewed on 25 July 2017 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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