[EARLY 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS OF SOUTHERN CHINA].

[Album of Ninety-Seven Silver Gelatin Photographs of Southern China].

(circa 1920). Stock ID #180379

Ninety-seven small silver gelatin photographs ranging in size from 6 x 8.5cm to 14.5 x 8.5cm. All but two of photographs are laid down on the black card leaves of the small photograph album 14.7 x 20cm, two photographs loosely inserted. Some fading and silvering, one corner chipped but generally good.

Album of uncaptioned black-and-white photos of southern China circa late 1910s to 1920s, probably taken by a British man named Stanley. Some of the photos were taken in Gulangyu (Kulangsu), the international settlement near Amoy (present day Xiamen), which existed from 1852 to 1930. The collection includes a picture of the Catholic catherdral of Gulangyu, which was completed in 1916. Several of the images show European families visiting local landmarks, and there are also photos of boats on the river, and numerous everyday scenes including images of farming, porters carrying goods across a river, scenes that appear to show alluvial mining, and a giant advertisement for Hatamen Cigarettes (a brand sold in China by British American Tobacco from 1923). A letter pasted in the back of the album and addressed to Mr. Stanley by a British government official requests a copy of a photo of a "bound 'brigand' lying on the road". Unfortunately that particular photo is not in the album!

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Price: $750.00 AU

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