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Album containing more than 95 photographs of Japan, Hong Kong, Gibraltar, Malta, Italy, and Pt.
Said, with 3 multi-part panoramas; 3 of the single photographs are hand-colored.With 62 views of
Japan, several attributed to BEATO, including Yokohoma after the typhoon, Kanasaw tea houses,
geishas, Odawarra Castle, the Chief executioner,” The tea house where Mr. Richardson was
murdered,” Daishie,Tokyo,Atango-yama, Uweno, Kyoto, Nagasaki, Hakodadi, and other villages; as
well as 6 compelling studies of the Aino; a 3-part panorama of Hong Kong by FLOYD AND AHFONG
(sp?); a 2-part panorama by ROSATI; a 2-part panorama of a military encampment; numerous military
views of the Royal Marine Battalion in Yokohama and in Gibraltar, with pictures of H.M.S.
“Monarch,” including Frith Series views of Gibraltar; 9 Italian tourist scenes; and an unidentified
and uncredited panoramic view of a harbor. Albumen prints, 9x111/2 inches (22.9x29.2 cm.), and
the reverse, and smaller, mounted recto only; most of the Japanese views with a caption in the
negative; many of the remaining prints with an identifying caption, in ink, on mount recto. Oblong
folio, green morocco, with Fong Chow’s handwritten notations, in pencil, on the front free endpaper
and on several caption cards inserted into the album, edgewear; all edges gilt; one leaf detached.
Mid-1870s [8,000/12,000]
From the Estate of Fong Chow.
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