This image previously appeared in Terry Bennett's "History of Photography in China: Chinese Photographers 1844-1879", published by Bernard Quaritch in 2013, with the caption:
Fig. 6.20. Lai Fong (Afong Studio). ‘A Group of all the different Compradores employed at the European Hongs, in Hongkong’, 1870s. The accompanying printed
caption has the number ‘98’. Author’s Collection.
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It is reproduced here with the permission of the author and publisher.