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371. Photo 1224/3(42)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(42)
Title:
Canton. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Canton was visited by the compiler of this album between 24th and 28th February, 1879. Two part panorama showing in the left foreground a two-storeyed building with a walled garden and rows of buildings behind it. Towards the right, canoes, junks and sailing boats are visible.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

372. Photo 1224/3(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(43)
Title:
Canton. Shamean [Shamian]. 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: 'Canton. No. 416.- View of Shameen- the Foreign Settlement. The Large Building was formerly used as a Hall of Commerce, but is now in the occupation of Messrs....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

373. 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

374. Photo 1224/3(45)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(45)
Title:
[Chinese] Priests. Photographer: Lai Afong
Scope & Content:
Full-length studio portrait of a group of priests, with a table in the centre on which stand religious articles and a miniature statue of Buddha. With contemporary descriptive printed label: 'No. 42-Priests. And here are the priests. Dirty, ignorant, lazy rascals, without exception; but in China...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

375. Photo 1224/3(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(46)
Title:
Chinese Graves. Photographer: Lai Afong
Scope & Content:
View of horseshoe-shaped graves in a Chinese cemetery. Inscriptions in Chinese on the wall.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

376. Photo 1224/3(47)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(47)
Title:
Canton. Flower Boat. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Canton was visited by the compiler of this album between 24th and 28th Februrary, 1879. General view of a houseboat moored alongside a building, with group of men and women seated on the deck.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

377. Photo 1224/3(48)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(48)
Title:
Canton. Interior [of a] Flower Boat. Photographer: Lai Afong
Scope & Content:
Canton was visited by the compiler of this album between 24th and 28th Februrary, 1879. With contemporary printed descriptive label: 'This represents the saloon of one of these boats, they are magnificiently fitted up in marble. The small room at the back is where the Chinese smoke opium. For a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1875
Extent:
1 item

378. Photo 1224/3(49)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(49)
Title:
[Two Chinese girls]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Full-length hand tinted studio portrait of two girls, one seated on a chair holding a stringed instrument, the other standing beside her. In the background are four banners with Chinese inscriptions.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

379. Photo 1224/3(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(50)
Title:
[Two Chinese women]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Full-length hand tinted studio portrait of two women seated at a table. In the background are two banners with Chinese inscriptions a painting.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

380. Photo 1224/3(51)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(51)
Title:
[A young Chinese girl]. Photographer: Lai Afong
Scope & Content:
Carte de visite format studio portrait of a girl, standing with her right arm resting on a table.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item