AFONG LAI, PUN-LIN, KUNG-TAI, CHEONG-HEUNG, YUH YUN, G.W. PACH, WILLIAM PRYOR FLOYD, G. PREVOT and others

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AFONG LAI, PUN-LIN, KUNG-TAI, CHEONG-HEUNG, YUH YUN, G.W. PACH, WILLIAM PRYOR FLOYD, G. PREVOT and others

Chinese portraits and industrial photographs, 1860s-1920s

A quantity of photographs, albumen and gelatin silver prints, various sizes, many mounted as cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards, the majority with photographers' printed credits; with three albums, one titled Neu-Deutschland Kiao-'t'schau, besetzt aur 14 November, 1897, another titled The Scenery Photographs of Nan Tung Industry,. Education & Philanthropy. (a lot)
Literature
The portrait of Professor Ko Kun Hua is illustrated in McCunn, Chinese American Portraits, p. 20; an engraving after another photograph of the Chinese Giant appears in Henry Davenport Northrop's, The Flowery Kingdom and the Land of the Mikado or China, Japan and Corea, p. 59

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In addition to those names of photographers listed above there are also examples by Thomas Moore and A. Bogardus of New York, W.B. Entrekin of Manayunk, H. Burrows of Liverpool, W. Duckering, Washington, A. Weber. Pennsylvania, and W.A. Bell of Santa Cruz, California.
Including an unusual image of Chang-Yu-Sing, the Chinese Giant over 8 feet tall, portraits of Cheung Ye Tie, a Chinese Mandarin, a Chinese actor, Sam Pui at 93 years, a Chinese youth with traditional shaved forehead and western dress, a Chinese youth named Luen-Pi in America, and two full-figure portraits of Professor Ko Kun Hua, a Mandarin who was chosen to establish a Chinese teachership in the 1870s at Harvard University in Boston. Industrial views include two interiors of a printing factory, one of a glass-blowing factory and an outdoor view of a perfume factory in Hong Kong, 1910.

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