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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1224 Language Not applicable Subject Antiquities

1. Photo 1224/3(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(44)
Title:
Interior of Joss House [Canton]. Photographer: Lai Afong
Scope & Content:
Canton was visited by the compiler of this album between 24th and 28th February, 1879. With contemporary descriptive letterpress label: 'No. 50-Mars, Boreas, &c. The truculent fellow on the one side is the God of war; on the other we have the God of wind. These figures must not be taken as r...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1224/4(72)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4(72)
Title:
Cochin China. Animites [Annamites, i.e.Vietnamese]. Photographer: Émile Gsell
Scope & Content:
Carte de visite size portrait of two children, seated in wicker baskets and apparently playing some kind of game involving coins or counters.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1879
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1224/4(153)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4(153)
Title:
[Union Square] New York. Photographer: Frith's Series
Scope & Content:
Numbered and titled in the negative: 4006. Union Square. N. York. With Frith's Series blindstamp. General view of Union Square, with the equestrian statue of George Washington in the right foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item