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Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2019-05-28 18:27

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1900

One of the photos from talk #5: https://gwulo.com/node/46051 <Read more ...>

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c.1885 - Sergeant

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2019-02-16 12:31

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1885

Subject: Sergeant. I've enlarged the distinctive items of his uniform, and welcome any additional information about what they signify.
Photographer: Wing Chong
Format: cabinet card
Date: c.1885. The back of the card gives the photographer's address as "No. 74, Queen's Road, Upstairs. Opposite the Central Market." Wing Chong was there in 1885 (see https://gwulo.com/node/31857)

Photo courtesy of The Pottinger Hong Kong hotel. <Read more ...>

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c.1885 - Three sergeants

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2019-02-16 12:31

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1885

Subject: Three sergeants. I've enlarged the distinctive items of their uniforms, and welcome any additional information about what they signify.
Photographer: Wing Chong
Format: cabinet card
Date: c.1885. The back of the card gives the photographer's address as "No. 74, Queen's Road, Upstairs. Opposite the Central Market." Wing Chong was there in 1885 (see https://gwulo.com/node/31857)

Photo courtesy of The Pottinger Hong Kong hotel. <Read more ...>

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c.1889 - Western couple

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2019-02-15 17:02

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1889

Subject: Sergeant and his wife?
Date: c.1889. The back of the card gives the photographer's address as 76 Queen's Road Central, and Pun Lun was there in 1889 (see https://gwulo.com/node/31857)
Photographer: Pun Lun
Format: cabinet card

Photo courtesy of The Pottinger Hong Kong hotel. <Read more ...>

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Submitted by Bennett on Mon, 2016-05-16 21:12

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1890

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. 6.43. Pun Lun. Ornately decorated back of a typical cabinet card from
Pun Lun’s Hong Kong studio, c.1890.

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Vol3.Fig-6.13

Submitted by Bennett on Wed, 2016-05-04 18:29

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1880

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. 6.13. Lai Fong (Afong Studio). Westerners in theatrical costume, 1870s–80s. Cabinet card photograph. Author’s Collection.

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Vol3.Fig-6.8.jpg

Submitted by Bennett on Mon, 2016-05-02 15:12

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1875

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. 6.8. Lai Fong (Afong Studio). Portrait of an unidentified foreigner with the Wyndham Street studio credit, c.1875. Cabinet card photograph. Author’s Collection.

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