Canton: [The Waterfront]; 'Five Story Pagoda'; 'North Gate Pagoda'; 'Canton Pagoda 2800 years old [Flower Pagoda]'; 'Cemetery Whampoa'; and 'Monastery White Cloud Mts'

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Dutton & Michaels and other photographers
Canton: [The Waterfront]; 'Five Story Pagoda'; 'North Gate Pagoda'; 'Canton Pagoda 2800 years old [Flower Pagoda]'; 'Cemetery Whampoa'; and 'Monastery White Cloud Mts'
all signed 'Dutton & Michaels', titled, and three dated '1863' in the plates
albumen silver prints
10 7/8 x 15 7/8in. (27.6 x 40.3cm.) and smaller
unframed
(15)with nine other albumen prints including studio portraits and landscapes

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Lot Essay

'In 1863 Sylvester Dutton [a San Francisco photographer, born Maine, c.1825] and a certain Michaels (possibly Vince Michaels) were partners in the firm of Dutton and Michaels in Canton. Subsequently Dutton opened a gallery on his own in Honam from 1864 to 1866. On December 1864, for example, he advertised that his gallery, "two doors down from Augustine Heard & Co.'s" featured a supply of "Panoramic, and single views of Canton, Whampoa and Macao."' (P.E. Palmquist and T.R. Kailbourn, Pioneer Photographers of the far west: a biographical dictionary, 1840-1865, Stanford, 2000, pp.211-12).

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