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Views of Shanghai, Canton, and Peking
2004.R.14
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Views of Shanghai, Canton, and Peking
Creator: Saunders, William, fl.
Creator: Rusfeldt, Emil
Identifier/Call Number: 2004.R.14
Physical Description: 1 box(9 photographic prints)
Date (inclusive): 1870-1888
Abstract: Photographs taken in the cities of Shanghai, Canton (Guangzhou) and Peking (Beijing), in the 1870s and 1880s.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in French.
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Acquired in 2004.
Views of Shanghai, Canton, and Peking, 1870-1888, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 2004.R.14.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2004r14
Processed and cataloged by Beth Ann Guynn; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant funding from the Council on Library
and Information Resources (CLIR). Finding aid revised by Guynn in 2019.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains mounted albumen photographs taken in the cities of Shanghai, Canton (Guangzhou) and Peking (Beijing)
in the 1870s and 1880s. The images of Shanghai include a street scene in the French concession, a stage set for a Chinese
theatrical production, and an installation shot of consumer goods such as Chinese porcelain, statuary, wooden implements,
and other folk objects on display in the Shanghai Municipal Council in the foreign settlement (attributed to William Saunders).
Images related to Guangzhou include a dealer's display of Cantonese furniture, a view of the private rock garden of a merchant,
and an interior view of a Cantonese flower boat or floating brothel by Emil Rusfeldt. Beijing is represented by a view of
a covered bridge on Wan-Shou-Shan (Longevity Hill), that leads to a pavillion in the old Summer Palace. Also included are
a two studio portraits: one depicts three Cantonese actors, while the other, attributed to Saunders, depicts two Shanghai
courtesans.
Two of the photographs are attributed to William Saunders; one is by Emil Rusfeldt (Riisfeldt), and the rest are by unidentified
makers.
Mounts are wet stamped in upper right corners; captions are handwritten on mounts below in French. Titles of images are taken
from the captions.
No discernible original order; arranged by cataloger. Arranged in a single series: Series I. Views of Shanghai, Canton, and
Peking.
The photographs in this collection were taken in China by various photographers, known and unknown, in the 1870s and 1880s.
The collection was digitized in 2019 and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2004r14
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Portraits, Chinese
Gardens -- China -- Beijing
Gardens -- China -- Guangzhou
Guangzhou (China) -- Description and travel
Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery -- China
Beijing (China) -- Description and travel
Streets -- China -- Concession française de Shanghai
Concession française de Shanghai -- Description and travel
Shanghai (China) -- Description and travel
Yihe Yuan (Beijing, China) -- Description and travel
Albumen prints -- China -- 19th century
Studio portraits -- China -- 19th century
Furniture -- China -- Guangzhou
Courtesans -- China
Brothels -- China
Actors -- China