VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including A. KEN and FRANCIS CHIT

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including A. KEN and FRANCIS CHIT
Views and portrait studies, Siam, 1860s-90s
Eleven albumen prints including three mounted as cartes-de-visite, other sizes approx. 6½ x 4½ in. to 8¼ x 10 in., six mounted on card, three titled and two dated in ink on mounts, the cartes-de-visite with photographer's printed credit on verso and two unmounted with pencil numbers on verso; with forty-five albumen prints and five matt gelatin silver prints, each approx. 4½ x 6½ in., one with ink stamp (indistinct), curled; with a manuscript letter from the author A. (?)Pallegais.(a lot)

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Including a view of the funeral procession for the Bishop of Siam, images of workers chopping logs for building, the French Consulat, architectural studies of temples; portraits of Siamese royalty, native villages, women and their children, and several images of musicians and dancers in traditional dress.

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