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571. 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

572. 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

573. 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

574. Photo 1224/3(56)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(56)
Title:
Magistrate's Court. Photographer: Saunders, W.
Scope & Content:
Studio re-enactment of a Chinese trial scene. With contemporary printed descriptive label: 'No.30.- A Court Scene. The presiding magistrate occupies the bench, and on either side are his clerks. The prosecutor, who, in this instance, holds some small official preferment, is seated to the right ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

575. Photo 1224/4(76)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4(76)
Title:
Gambogia [Cambodia]. Actors. Photographer: Émile Gsell
Scope & Content:
Full-length seated studio portrait of a man and woman wearing a traditional dancers' costume.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1866-1875
Extent:
1 item

576. Photo 1224/4(78)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4(78)
Title:
Gambogia [Cambodia]. Actors. Photographer: Émile Gsell
Scope & Content:
Full-length seated studio portrait of an actor in traditional costume.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1866-1879
Extent:
1 item

577. Photo 1224/4(81)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4(81)
Title:
Gambogia [Cambodia]. Aboriginese [Aborigines]. Photographer: Émile Gsell
Scope & Content:
Three-quarter length seated studio portrait of a boy with bare torso, wearing a traditional dress and necklace and armbands.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1866-1879
Extent:
1 item

578. Photo 1224/4(90)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4(90)
Title:
San Francisco. Cliff House. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View looking down onto Cliff House and the Seal Rocks beyond.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1879
Extent:
1 item

579. Photo 1224/6(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/6(25)
Title:
[Japanese] Tea house girl. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Numbered 596 in the negative. Full-length portrait of a young Japanese woman, holding teapot and cups, posed in front of a teahouse.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

580. Photo 1224/4(117)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4(117)
Title:
Yo-Semite Valley. Mareposa [sic] Grove. The Grizzly Giant. 33 feet. Diam. Photographer: (?)Carleton E. Watkins
Scope & Content:
View of the tree known as the Grizzly Giant, the largest sequoia in Mariposa Grove, near Wawona in the southern part of the Yosemite National Park.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1865-1866
Extent:
1 item