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.
Inscribed in Japanese and numbered 46 in the negative. View looking across the rooftops of an undientified village towards the cloud-wreathed Mount Fujiyama.
Pagoda near Shanghai [Longhua Pagoda]. Photographer: Unknown
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Shanghai was visited by the compiler of this album between 12th and 26th March, 1879. General view of the pagoda, with a field in the foreground and the boundary wall of a building in the background. A similar view is reproduced in Western Eyes: Historical Photographs of China in British Collect...
Singapore. Photographer: G. R. Lambert and Company
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General view looking towards the Tanjong Pagar Docks. Photograph unsigned, but probably by G. R. Lambert and Co. Singapore was visited by the compiler of this album between 28th January and 1st February 1879.
Singapore. Photographer: G. R. Lambert and Company
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General view from Mount Palmer, looking north across the bay towards Collyer Quay, with Telok Ayer Street on the left. The large building in the right background is Ocean Building, with the Telok Ayer Market to the left. The bay was later reclaimed in the 1880s. The spire of St Andrew's Cathedra...