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Kaiser Wilhelm II in Morocco
Souvenir album of Kaiser Wilhelm II's Mediterranean trip March/April 1905

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Souvenir album of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Mediterranean trip. 1905-1906. Ca. 112 vintage gelatin silver prints, mounted to album boards. 103 prints ca. 13 x 18 cm and 9 prints ca. 17 x 24 cm. Each annotated in ink below the image on the mount. Bound in a contemporary half-leather album with gilt-stamped title “Meine Kaiserreise 1905” on the front cover.

This album documents the imperial entourage around Wilhelm II during his Mediterranean journey aboard the SMS Hamburg and other accompanying ships such as the Hohenzollern. The journey, which took place in 1905-1906, included stops in Portugal, Morocco, Gibraltar, Italy, and Greece. Particularly noteworthy is the imperial visit to Tangier, where Wilhelm II went ashore to meet Sultan Abd el-Aziz and rode in on horseback. This event led to a serious international crisis between the European powers - especially between France and the German Empire - later known as the “First Moroccan Crisis.”