VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS INCLUDING THOMAS CHILD

China and Straits Settlements, circa 1880s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS INCLUDING THOMAS CHILD
China and Straits Settlements, circa 1880s
Album of approx. ninety-three albumen prints, sizes from 6¼ x 8¼ in. or the reverse to 9 x 11¼ in. or the reverse, many with edges masked, one signed T. Child in the negative, numbered in pencil to bottom right corner in margins, titled in ink below images, contents/index pages handwritten in ink, red leather (disbound), gilt, titled China and Straits Settlements on cover and spine, g.e., 12¼ x 17 in.

Literature

Goodrich and Cameron, The Face of China, p. 84 (illus.)

Lot Essay

Varied album containing views of Canton, Shanghai, Peking, Hong Kong, Malaya including Penang and Singapore. Individual subjects include opium-smokers, an execution, sweet-vendors, harbour views, junks, race-courses, shooting trips, a banyan tree, a burial ground, the interior of a wealthy merchant's house, a Chinese shoe-maker, natives outside a hut with hanging skulls in Sarawak and various colonial buildings.

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