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283 x 226 mill. View looking along the city walls towards the Five Storied Pagoda. Photographer unknown, possibly Dutton & Michaels.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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Half-plate. [Showing a path with ?shops along the right and two people carrying baskets on yokes in the distance ].

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841 x 193 mm (three prints joined). Panoramic view of the town of Wu-chen with the river in the foreground. Situated 120 miles west of Canton near the border between Kwangsi and Kwantung Provinces, the town lies on the West River at the mouth of the Kwei River. It was not opened for foreign trade until 1897. This print is reproduced in Clark Worswick, 'Imperial China, photographs 1850-1912' (Pennwick/Crown 1978) pp. 18-19

Scope and Contents 953 x 255 mm. A panoramic view of the Pearl River entering Canton (Guangzhou), by an unknown photographer. Taken on the outer bank of a busy bend in the river and looking across to a customs building, where orderly lines of crates can be seen on the quayside and numerous small boats are tied up. Behind the customs house is a four-storey building with a clock-tower. There is a park/area of trees to the left of the customs building, with a perimeter road running beside the river. To the right...

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Six of the panoramas are of Hong Kong, one of Canton, and one of Macau. The provenance of the panoramas is unknown, but they arrived in Cambridge University Library in 1993 as part of the Royal Commonwealth Society’s photographic collection.

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A view showing the large and crowded settlement on the river frontage at Canton.

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211 x 282 mm. View looking along a narrow commercial street in Canton hung with shopkeepers' banners. Precise location unknown, but possibly a view of Physic Street: compare with the collotype in John Thomson, 'Illustrations of China and its people' (Vol. I, 1873) plate 20. Photographer unknown, possibly Dutton & Michaels.

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A view from the river showing business premises on the waterfront with moored boats in the foreground. The large Sun Building in the centre of the slide is presumably named after Sun Yat Sen.

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288 x 214 mm. General view of unidentified temple buildings, with a large stone carving of a tortoise in an open-sided pavilion in the foreground.

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278 x 210 mm. View in a temple courtyard at Canton with a shrine in the foreground in the form of an open-sided pavilion.

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233 x 241 mm. View of one of the images in the temple, a bronze figure of a jovial man with children on his lap and shoulders.

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[No print]. Missing.

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292 x 203 mm. View looking down an aisle with rows of sculptured images on either side.

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From top of City Wall : 8 of the 9 storeys are visible form here. The British Yamen is to the right beyond the two B.A. masts. [View over rooftops].

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Half-plate. [No print]. Missing.

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282 x 233 mm. View of the Nine-storied Pagoda at Canton, seen here in dilapidated condition

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286 x 212 mm. View looking along the Pearl River towards a gorge. With sampans moored to the bank in the foreground.

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Landscape format. [Showing uniformed men standing around outside tall buildings on the right].

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271 x 204 mm. View looking along the body of the temples, with a row of bronze images on either side.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). English Hotel on the British Concession, Shameen, Canton. This looks on to the creek close to the English Bridge. [Showing person with dogs walking past the hotel with potted plants in front].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing two men standing at the top of the steps on the right, with trees behind, and boats in the water below].

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Landscape format. Showing buildings above the (hidden) gateway; in diatance to left note twin spires of the French cathedral within the city.

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Landscape format. Looking over suburb roofs - shows one of the new fire lookouts.

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Looking south across suburb and showing three pawn shops.