[ Photographs ] Allen, Albert Arthur Portfolio entitled "The Underworld, Prologue" containing 15 photographs of female nudes posed in a boudoir setting or against a backdrop painted with a large Chinese dragon (both settings meant to be the interior

[ Photographs ] Allen, Albert Arthur Portfolio entitled "The Underworld, Prologue" containing 15 photographs of female nudes posed in a boudoir setting or against a backdrop painted with a large Chinese dragon (both settings meant to be the interior of a secret Chinese palace in San Francisco's Chinatown). With a text pamphlet containing a foreword and explanation of the series. Silver prints, 9 25 x 7.25 inches each with the plate number stamped on verso. 4to, wrappers, covers disbound; contents crisp and clean, loose as issued. middle-late 1920s E2000-3000 One of Allen's stranger projects, "The Underworld was described by the photographer as a series which would present 15 entirely different girls or women "in the entire Nude" and later "connect their habits and life with typical environments of the underworld. "