Jean Louis Lain Empain (1902 - 1946) S. Y. Heliopolis. World Cruise, 1933. Personal album of baron Empain. Pacific. French Polynesia. Tahiti. Oceania. News - Hebrides. Indonesia. Bali. Java. Egypt. Stopovers. Life on board. Orchestra. Card game. Hunting. Crew. Traditional dances. Portraits. Funerary monuments. Votive masks. Tattoos. Fishermen. Sculptures. Ceremonies. Cockfighting. Rice fields. Plain of Giza. Suez Canal. Gibraltar. Album in-folio, bound in full tan morocco, titled on the first plate with a yacht's pennant, composed of about 1350 silver prints from the period, pasted on cardboard. Average size of the prints : 9,5 x 12,5 cm Son of a schoolteacher, Édouard Empain represents one of the greatest industrial success of the end of the 19th century. General and aide-de-camp to the Belgian king Leopold II, he was knighted in 1907. He created a commercial empire in the early 1880s, which his two sons Louis and Jean inherited. In 1933, the latter embarked on a long voyage aboard the yacht S. Y. Heliopolis, whose name echoes the city built by his father. This imposing album illustrates this very rich journey through Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Bali, Java, until the Pacific, Polynesia, the New Hebrides, Oceania and Tahiti. Jean Louis Lain Empain (1902-1946) S. Y. Heliopolis. World Cruise, 1933. personal album of Baron Empain. Pacific. French Polynesia. Tahiti. Oceania. New Hebrides. Indonesia. Bali. Java. Egypt. Stopovers. Life on board. Orchestra. Card game. Hunting. Crew. Traditional dances. Portraits. Funerary monuments. Votive masks. Tattoos. Fishermen. Sculptures. Ceremonies. Cockfighting. Rice fields. Plain of Giza. Suez Canal. Gibraltar. Folio album, titled on the cover with a yacht pennant, composed of about 1350 vintage gelatin silver prints, mounted on cardboard. Average size of the prints: 9.5 x 12.5 cm