EMIL RUSFELDT and another (The Hong Kong Photographic Rooms)

Street view showing the Hong Kong Photographic Rooms studio, Hong Kong, circa 1871-74

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EMIL RUSFELDT and another (The Hong Kong Photographic Rooms)
Street view showing the Hong Kong Photographic Rooms studio, Hong Kong, circa 1871-74
Albumen print, 10½ x 8¼ in., mounted on album leaf with another albumen print mounted on verso, the former with printed title and caption Hong Kong No. 295 - Germanic Club. Taken from the corner of Wellington and Wyndham Streets, this was built by Messrs. Sassoon as a Club House for the German residents of the Island. on paper label on mount, matted.

Literature

Worswick, Imperial China, p. 76 (illus.)

Lot Essay

The Hong Kong Photographic Rooms existed from 1871-74 under Emil Rusfeldt. It had begun in 1860 as The Firm under the partnership of Weed and Howard. Over a period of about seventeen years the studio changed names a number of times as various commercial photographers moved in and set up business using both the accumulated negatives from those before them as well as producing their own work.

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