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Shanghai Steam Navigation Co., 1880s
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Pow Kee and Yung-Fong (active 1880s), Photographers
Shanghai Steam Navigation Co., 1880s
an album comprising 71 photographs mounted on card album leaves (recto and verso), one further photograph tipped in, of Shanghai, Hankow and environs along the Han and Yangtze rivers, with numerous portraits of the company's ships including the paddlesteamers Hankow, Peking, Shanghai, Ichang, Fire Queen, Plymouth-Rock, Hirado, Fusi-Yama, Hang Chow, Honan, Kiang Loong, Nanking, Szechuen, Fychow, Kiang-Tsi and others, views of the company's wharves at Shanghai and Hankow, opium hulks at anchor along the Bund at Shanghai, Hankow views and group portraits of company directors and staff at Hankow
1 signed and dated 'POW KEE HANKOW 1884', 2 signed and dated 'POW KEE HANKOW 1887' and 6 signed variously 'POW KEE. PHOTOGRAPHER. HANKOW', 'POW KEE. HANKOW' and 'POW KEE' in the negative, 1 signed and dated 'HANKOW 14 APRIL 1885 YUNG-FONG' and 1 signed and dated 'HANKOW 15 APRIL 1885 YUNG-FONG.' in the negative
albumen prints
9 x 11in. (22.8 x 30.4cm.) and similar
oblong 2° album, contemporary half red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, with 'Sketch Map showing the main lines of Postal and Telegraphic communication of the British Empire' mounted on upper pastedown
Shanghai Steam Navigation Co., 1880s
an album comprising 71 photographs mounted on card album leaves (recto and verso), one further photograph tipped in, of Shanghai, Hankow and environs along the Han and Yangtze rivers, with numerous portraits of the company's ships including the paddlesteamers Hankow, Peking, Shanghai, Ichang, Fire Queen, Plymouth-Rock, Hirado, Fusi-Yama, Hang Chow, Honan, Kiang Loong, Nanking, Szechuen, Fychow, Kiang-Tsi and others, views of the company's wharves at Shanghai and Hankow, opium hulks at anchor along the Bund at Shanghai, Hankow views and group portraits of company directors and staff at Hankow
1 signed and dated 'POW KEE HANKOW 1884', 2 signed and dated 'POW KEE HANKOW 1887' and 6 signed variously 'POW KEE. PHOTOGRAPHER. HANKOW', 'POW KEE. HANKOW' and 'POW KEE' in the negative, 1 signed and dated 'HANKOW 14 APRIL 1885 YUNG-FONG' and 1 signed and dated 'HANKOW 15 APRIL 1885 YUNG-FONG.' in the negative
albumen prints
9 x 11in. (22.8 x 30.4cm.) and similar
oblong 2° album, contemporary half red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, with 'Sketch Map showing the main lines of Postal and Telegraphic communication of the British Empire' mounted on upper pastedown
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