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Photo 1116/1(50)
- Record Id:
- 041-003176840
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003176789
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026599950.0x000c56
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1116/1(50)
- Title:
-
No. 259. A street, Canton. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
-
Genre: Landscape Photography
View looking along a narrow street lined with shops and hung with name boards. The accompanying letterpress caption note reads: 'The street in all native cities (except Peking, the northern Capital) are identical in their narrowness and gloom; wanting to the eye of a foreigner the gay appearance universal in the cities of Europe, their tortuous windings however, possess the advantage of cutting off the blazing rays of hot sunshine, and a stroll through them would doubtless be enjoyable were it not for the variety of indecribale smells that rouse the olfactory nerves to antagonism with the will of an explorer. Curio shops abound in these narrow labyrinths, but the prices asked for the wares are generally very exorbitant, and the business in consequence is not extensive.'
[Albumen print, 212x292mm]
Subjects = Chinese architecture; shops; street scenes
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003176789
040-003176790
041-003176840 - Is part of:
- Photo 1116 : Crofton Collection: Photographs of Hong Kong, China Ceylon and Zanzibar.
Photo 1116/1 : Crofton Collection: Hongkong and Canton 1880-1890. Photographer(s): Unknown
Photo 1116/1(50) : No. 259. A street, Canton. Photographer: Unknown - Hierarchy:
- 032-003176789[0001]/040-003176790[0050]/041-003176840
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1116
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1880
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 1880s-1890s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Former External References:
- 259
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Places:
- Canton, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Asia