Unidentified photographerJoachim Nicol personal album during the Sino-Japanese war, 1937-1939. Sino-Japanese hostilities. Campaign album. On board the Lamotte-Piquet. Shanghai. Japanese attack. Chinese assault wave. In the entrenchments. Chinese engineers at work. Abandoned equipment. Tugboat climbing the dam. Nantao dam. Exodus of the population of Nantao. Fire after bombing. Fire lights above Chapei. Chinese searching for their families. After the passage of a Japanese squadron. Transport of wounded. Bombs bursting in Hongkew. Influx of refugees. Chinese cemetery. Old German fortification. Throwing grenades. Chinese women firing a shot. Chinese air camp surprised by a Japanese squadron. Field artillery. Horrific slaughter. Recognition of the victims. Incendiary bombs. Album in-8 with cardboard cover and leather jacket, titled, dated and signed by Joachim Nicol at the beginning of the volume, composed of 117 silver prints of the period, mounted by the corners on cardboard, of which 11 tinted in red (bombings and fires at night). Numerous annotations on the mounts. Size: from 5,5x8,5 to 9,5x12,5cm