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Detailed three-part panorama of Hong Kong. Albumen prints, each approximately 8x103/4 inches
(20.3x27.3 cm.), overall size 8x33 inches (20.3x83.8 cm.), unmounted. 1875 [3,000/3,500]
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Album containing 38 photographs, with 25 relating to the native peoples, rich culture, and
international diplomatic community in Seoul, Korea, including a young man in court dress, palace
dancing girls, a pre-historic tablet, architectural views of the British, Japanese and Russian legations,
the Queen’s funeral procession on East Street, the Palace gate, and suburbs of Seoul, as well as 13
miscellaneous photographs of India and Egypt, including foreign emissaries and native peoples.
Albumen and printing-out paper prints, sizes ranging from 3x4 to 10 1/2 x8 inches (7.6x10.2 to
26.7x20.3 cm.), and smaller, each of the prints is captioned, in ink, in a period hand; also with the
handwritten notations “A. St. Jordan, Seoul, February 1899” on the front pastedown. Oblong black
cloth, light wear. 1899 [4,000/6,000]
WITH—Gathering of 20 picturesque photographs of Seoul and surrounding areas by an accomplished
American missionary-photographer, including ruins of the old palace, view from the East Gate, the
American Minister School, U.S. Legation, Court of the Lions (old palace), an ancient gate outside the
city wall, Mandarins House at Tenchuan, Surgeon Woods (U.S.A.) outside the gate, reception room
Kingi Palace, and more. Mounted albumen prints, image size 41 /2 x73/4 inches (11.4x19.7 cm.), one
per sheet, mount size 9x12 inches (22.9x30.5 cm.), each with handwritten notations, in pencil, on
mount verso. 1883-1884.
From the Estate of Fong Chow.
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