The guys who published many of the photos we see today.
Their shop was in Beaconsfield Arcade - you can see it in this photo too:
I've added tag Photographers to this. It'll be useful to find out when different photographers operated, to help with dating photos.
I searched for Mee Cheung in MMIS. The earliest result is on page 2 of The China Mail, 1897-10-09, and the latest result is on page 9 of The Hong Kong Telegraph, 1939-03-04.
I've set the years of operation to be c.1897-c.1939, but please leave a comment if you know they were in business beyond those years.
As noted here ,Wattis Fine Art gives the range between 1890 and 1956.
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Their shop was in
Their shop was in Beaconsfield Arcade - you can see it in this photo too:
I've added tag Photographers to this. It'll be useful to find out when different photographers operated, to help with dating photos.
Years of operation
I searched for Mee Cheung in MMIS. The earliest result is on page 2 of The China Mail, 1897-10-09, and the latest result is on page 9 of The Hong Kong Telegraph, 1939-03-04.
I've set the years of operation to be c.1897-c.1939, but please leave a comment if you know they were in business beyond those years.
1894 Mee Cheung Advert
As noted here ,Wattis Fine Art gives the range between 1890 and 1956.
1900s Mee Cheung Photographic Studio