Lot Essay
Portraits include the King of Siam, 'Chinese street coolies', several portraits of Somalis, 'Maltese beggar', a Turkish woman, and an Aino woman.
Details
Afong, Francis Chit, P. Sebah, A.C. Comes, Micallef & Borg, and othersEthnographic portrait studies, 1870s
Twenty-one albumen prints, mounted as cartes-de-visite, the majority titled and a few dated in ink/pencil and several with photographers' printed credit on verso. (21)
Twenty-one albumen prints, mounted as cartes-de-visite, the majority titled and a few dated in ink/pencil and several with photographers' printed credit on verso. (21)
Further details
See illustration