Finding aid for the G. Prat Photograph Album of China and Japan, 1874-1900 98.R.14

Beth Ann Guynn

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2020

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Title: G. Prat photograph album of China and Japan

Creator: Prat, G., active 1874-1900

Identifier/Call Number: 98.R.14

Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/3/resources/1151

Physical Description: 1.5 Linear Feet (1 album containing 151 photographs; 21 loose photographic prints)

Date (inclusive): 1874-1900

Abstract: The album, compiled by G. Prat, a French silk inspector working in China in the latter part of the nineteenth century, contains 151 albumen photographs of China and Japan. The album's visual focus is on the ports and trading centers of China's Pearl River Delta. Present are 98 views of Guangzhou (Canton); six of Hong Kong; and 11 of Macau. Additionally, there are 16 images on eight pages depicting the Canton Amateur Theatrical Society's (CATS) productions, and 20 photographs of Japan, 19 of which are hand colored. Photographers include Lai Fong and Kusakabe Kinbē. Extensive commentary written on the mount borders forms Prat's compendium on China in which he addresses any number of topics from history, geography, climate, agriculture, religion, language and dialects, and business practices to family life, sedan chairs, etiquette, costume and dress, and opium, to a lexicon of colonial Asian terms. The album is accompanied by 21 loose albumen prints and a manuscript listing photographs to be acquired.

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Language of Material: French .

Conditions Governing Access

Open for use by qualified researchers.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Acquired in 1998.

Digitized Material

The collection was digitized in 2000 and the images are available online:

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/98r14

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in a single series: Series I: G. Prat photograph album of China and Japan, 1874-1900.

Biographical / Historical

The Frenchman, G. Prat, lived in Asia during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, working or traveling in the region from at least 1874 to 1896. From 1877 to 1884, he was based in Guangzhou where he was employed as a silk inspector by the American trading company Russell & Co. for a year and a half, and by the English firm Thomas, Rowe, & Smith for five and a half years. He was active in the European community on Shamian Island and numbered among his friends the "junior men" who were variously employed as accountants, tea tasters, silk inspectors, and the like at the European trading houses established in the port city.

Sources consulted:

___"The Case of the Canton-Riot," The Straits Times, 27 September 1883, p. 2. Newspaper SG, microfilm reel NL05047.

The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Sian, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c: with which are Incorporated "The China Directory" and "The Hong Kong List for the Far East…" Hong Kong: Hongkong Daily Press Office, 1882.

Events in Hongkong and the Far East, 1875 to 1884. Hong Kong: Daily Press Office, 1885.

Bickers, Robert, China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816 – 1980. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

Department of State, United States, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1885.

Hart, Robert and James Duncan Campbell, The I. G. in Peking: Letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907 . Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1975.

Morse, Hosea Ballou, The International Relations of the Chinese Empire, volume 2: The Period of Submission, 1861-1893. New York, Bombay, Calcutta: Longmans, Green and Co, 1918.

Perdue, Peter C., "The Rise & Fall of the Canton Trade System," Visualizing Cultures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology website. https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/rise_fall_canton_01/pdf/cw03_essay.pdf

Prat, G., G. Prat Photograph Album of China and Japan, 1874-1900, accession number 98.R.14, album, Box 1*.

Preferred Citation

G. Prat photograph album of China and Japan, 1874-1900, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 98.R.14.

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa98r14

Processing Information

The finding aid was written by Beth Ann Guynn in 2020. The collection was originally accessioned with the title: Chine-Japon Photograph Album.

Scope and Contents

The collection comprises an album compiled by G. Prat containing 151 albumen photographs, some of which are hand colored; 21 loose albumen prints; and a manuscript list of photographs to be obtained.

The untitled album is half bound in dark green leather with gilt stamped decorative banding; the spine is mostly lacking. The boards are covered in dark green leatherette. Inscribed on the free front endpaper is the compiler's name, simply recorded as "G. Prat." The album has 149 pages with eight blank pages in the middle and one blank page at its end. While most of the pages contain a single image, six pages hold two photographs, and two pages hold three photographs.

The album's visual focus is on the ports and trading centers of China's Pearl River Delta. Present are 98 views of Guangzhou (Canton), one of the five original Chinese treaty ports; six of Hong Kong; and 11 of Macau. Additionally, there are 16 images on eight pages depicting the Canton Amateur Theatrical Society's (CATS) productions, and 20 photographs of Japan, 19 of which are hand-colored. To date, a handful of the photographs of China have been identified as being by Lai Fong and it is likely that further research will confirm that the bulk of them are in fact by this Chinese photographer or his studio, known as Afong Studio, which was based in Hong Kong. It is also possible that some of the China photographs could have been taken by Prat himself, although this argument is weakened by the fact that Lai Fong (or his studio operatives) frequently documented the events and outings of the denizens of the Western settlements in the treaty ports. Lastly, Kusakabe Kinbē has been identified as the maker of most of the photographs of Japan in the album.

Captions are written in French above the photographs and are continued below the image. The upper portion of the caption usually contains a location and a date, while the one below the image is usually descriptive of the photograph and often has additional notes written immediately below it. Most of the titles of the individual photographs were derived by combining the two captions. Prat's spelling has been retained and transcribed as written with the exception of distinct words linked by ligatures which have been divided into separate words.The date in the caption above each photograph has been used to date the image it is associated with, although in some cases the descriptive text indicates that these dates may be of a more general nature rather than being strictly specific to the image.

Although the dates in the upper captions range from 1874 to 1896, the album is not organized in chronological order. Rather, Prat seems to have started compiling the album beginning with photographs taken in or related to 1878, and then adding groups of photographs from both before and after that date as his project progressed. The first six photographs in the album document the aftermath of the cyclone (which Prat refers to as a trombe) that struck Guangzhou on April 10, 1878. The emphasis on the destruction of buildings in the European settlement on Shamian Island, specifically that sustained by the European trading houses, sets the tone for Prat's focus on documenting the Western business communities established along the Pearl River Delta.

The island known as Shamian (also Shameen; Shamin; Prat uses the French spelling Shamien) is where Prat spent a significant amount of the time covered in the album. In 1859, the foreign community in Guangzhou was moved from the banks of the Pearl River to the island, a former sandbar that was separated from the mainland by the creation of an artificial canal or river (now called Shajichong) and built up to encompass twenty-seven hectares. Britain leased three-fifths of the island from China, using it for their concession or settlement, while France leased the remaining land. Leasing the land from China allowed the settlements to exist autonomously, essentially exempt from local Chinese control. The island was connected to the mainland by two bridges, one located in each settlement, that were locked at night. By 1873, Shamian boasted ten foreign consulates, numerous western banks, and the local headquarters of the most prominent European and American trading companies present in China.

The remainder of the photographs in the first half of the album alternate between views on Shamian and views of the Chinese city. Attention is given to areas where the two communities were likely to meet, such as the docks and wharves, and to the assorted Chinese and European vessels plying its waterways. Informed by his profession as a silk inspector, Prat naturally focuses on the numerous British, French, German, and American trading companies established on Shamian. These companies were housed in so called "factories" which combined trade offices, warehouses, and living quarters for their male employees. Nothing was manufactured in these buildings, which had facades that gave them the appearance of large villas. Rather, the term factory comes from the English word factor, used to mean commercial agent. The Chinese term for these establishments was "hongs." Across East Asia and the East Pacific they were also referred to as "godowns." Prat calls them "maisons." In the album, Prat includes photographs of or mentions all of the important houses: W. Pustau & Co. Siemssen & Co.; Jardine, Matheson & Co.; Olyphant & Co.; Russell & Co.; Coare, Lind, & Co.; Carlowitz & Co.; Birley & Co.; Deacon & Co.; Vogel Hagedorn (Vogel & Co.); and Thomas, Rowe, & Smith (Thomas & Mercer Co.). The earlier images often show the "junior men" of the company seated on porches and verandas or standing on upper balconies. Prat identifies the men, noting his close friends. Photographs placed later along in the album depict the state of the trading houses after the anti-foreign riots that took place on September 10, 1883.

While the overarching background to the anti-foreign riots on Shamian Island was the growing tension between France and China due to the increasing French encroachment in northern Vietnam (Tonkin) that culminated in the Sino-French war (April 1884 to April 1885), two local incidents involving Europeans that resulted in the death of Chinese persons were the immediate causes of the uprising. In the first, which occurred on August 13, 1883, J. H. Logan, an English tidewaiter or customs officer, confronted a group of Chinese men and boys who were gathered on the steps of the house where he was drinking and playing cards. An argument ensued when the partying men tried to send the Chinese men away. Logan ran back inside the building, retrieved a rifle, and fired it, wounding a Chinese man and woman and killing Pak Wa Kung, a twelve-year-old Chinese boy.

The second, known as the "Hankow incident," began when Luo Fen, who was attemping to secure good berths for boardinghouse guests on the steamer Hankow early in the morning of September 10, was accosted and brutally kicked by Faustino Caetano Diaz, a Portuguese watchman, causing him to fall overboard. Luo's death was due either directly to the blows or to drowning. In response to Luo's death, Chinese rioters set fire to the wharf and sheds where the Hankow was moored, but the steamer itself escaped harm by sailing quickly upriver. Failing to destroy the vessel, the rioters moved on to Shamian Island where they looted and burned numerous buildings. Most of the European women and children fled to other steamships anchored in the harbor, while the male population patrolled the island. Charles Seymour, the American consul at Guangzhou, began his understated dispatch written at ten p.m. on the night of the riots to John Russell Young, the American minister to China (later the seventh Librarian of Congress), "Sir: I have the honor to inform you that the Europeans and Americans residing in Canton and on the Shameen have had an interesting day during which some lives were lost and considerable property has been destroyed, amounting in value to about $200,000…"

The Chinese army was called in to help protect the settlement from further rioting. Several photographs record its encampment and groups of soldiers on the commons with burnt buildings in the background, while other images record the beefed up presence of foreign warships in the harbor. Some views show the beginnings of reconstruction with bamboo scaffolding erected around the damaged structures.

The trials of both European men took place after the riots. Logan, whose trial began on September 20, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to seven years of servitude, which was widely believed among the Chinese to be too lenient of a punishment. In November, Diaz was sentenced to three months imprisonment. In both cases the trials were conducted and sentencing delivered according to European rather than Chinese law, and their outcomes led to increased resentment of the European presence in China.

The first half of the album concludes with various scenes of Chinese Guangzhou. After a break of eight blank pages the reader is transported to Japan in the year 1896. Nineteen of the 20 photographs in this section are by Kusakabe Kinbē, a Japanese photographer who worked for Felice Beato and Baron Raimund von Stillfried as a studio assistant and colorist before opening his own studio in Yokohama in 1881. Around 1885, he acquired the negatives of his former employers and those of Uchida Kuichi, as well as some of Ueno Hikoma's negatives of Nagasaki. By 1893, Kusakabe was one of the most prominent Japanese photographers and his work was sought after by Western customers who knew him by his first name, Kinbē or Kimbei. His images of Japanese women, three examples of which appear in Prat's album, were especially popular. Most of the photographs in the album, however, are delicately colored views of Japanese cities – Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama, Tokyo, and Osaka – and of iconic Japanese locales such as Mount Fuji and Lake Biwa. With the sole exception of an uncolored view looking down a Yokohama canal towards the French consulate, Prat's self-referential choice of images, so prevalent in the first half of the album, is lacking in his selection of Japanese photographs.

In the pages following the photographs of Japan, Prat returned to adding earlier images from his time in China to the album. He devotes much of the last part of the album to documenting the European community on Shamian Island and locating himself within it. Dating from 1877 to 1883, the photographs include large group portraits of the community gathered outdoors, as well as images of Prat and his circle of friends casually arranged on the porches and verandahs of their communal residences. Most of the images of the CATS players are found in this section of the album, along with three group portraits of the costumed attendees of the masked ball given by Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Smith of Jardine, Matheson & Co. in 1879. Also included here are the images of Hong Kong and Macau, all of which are dated 1879 (in the first part of the album there is a lone photograph of Hong Kong dated 1874). As Prat was working in Guangzhou at the time, it is likely that he traveled to these two locations for either business or pleasure.

Throughout the album, the photographs and their immediate upper and lower captions are enclosed in elaborate geometric or floral borders hand drawn in red or black ink. Prat used the margins outside these surrounds to write extensive commentaries. Those written below the borders often, but not always, refer to the image on the page, while those written above the image, and frequently also in both side margins (sometimes written sideways), form Prat's compendium on China in which he addresses any number of topics from history, geography, climate, agriculture, religion, language and dialects, and business practices to family life, sedan chairs, etiquette, costume and dress, and opium. Each subject is noted in the top margin of the page where it begins, and topics often continue on several successive pages. The last entry in the album is a small lexicon spanning several pages that Prat labels "quelques locutions pidgin english."

Cross references to the album's photographs are often made in the marginalia, as well as in the image captions. The dates included in these texts frequently refer to events that took place later or earlier than the dates given in the upper captions for the images, which suggests that at some point after the album compilation was well underway, or perhaps even completed, Prat decided to add his general treatise on China.

The album is accompanied by 21 loose albumen prints, falling into three distinct groups, and a manuscript list of photographs. The first group comprises eight group portraits of members of the European community taken in Guangzhou between 1877 and 1883. Six of these portraits are also present in the album. The other two photographs in the group are formal studio portraits. One of these portraying four mustachioed young European men is by Li Yong, while the other of six men, more casually arranged and dressed, is by an unidentified photographer. Some of the men appear in both portraits.

The second group of loose photographs comprises seven views of Guangzhou. While all of them are dated on their versos "Canton 1900," the photographs themselves were likely taken at an earlier date, as indicated by the fact that several of them relate directly to, or are variants of, photographs found in the album, and are assigned a number following the page number on which a corresponding image appears. Lastly, six views of the Rhône Valley in France taken in the 1880s by one or more unidentified photographers form the third group of loose photographs.

The list of photographs is headed "Liste de vues à demander à Canton." In it, Prat gives detailed descriptions of 19 views of Guangzhou, including sites within both the Chinese city and the European settlements, which he wishes to acquire. At the end of the list he explains that these photographs could be sold to residents of Canton or to "globe trotters" as souvenirs, and that he hopes to be the one to facilitate this. He also explains which photographs would be easy to obtain and which would require permission of the subjects represented, or as in the case of number 17, the festival of the dragon boat, would need to be taken on a specific date, here "le 5me jour de le 5me lune." As evidenced by his description of the first image, a view of the central lane of the French Concession, Prat compiled the list sometime after 1884 ("qui, m'a-t'on dit, est aujourd'hui complètement garnie de maisons, alors qu'en 1884, il n'y en avait encase aucune"), and possibly as late as 1900 when he assembled the group of loose photographs of Guangzhou.

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

Disasters -- China -- Guangzhou

Hurricanes -- China -- Guangzhou

Harbors -- China -- Guangzhou

Riots -- China -- Guangzhou -- History -- 19th century

Guangzhou (China) -- Description and travel

Hong Kong -- Description and travel

Macau -- Description and travel

Pearl River Delta -- Description and travel

Shamian (China) -- Description and travel

Photographs, Original

Albumen prints -- China -- 19th century

Albumen prints -- Japan -- 19th century

Photograph albums -- China -- 19th century

Photograph albums -- Japan -- 19th century

Hand coloring -- Japan -- 19th century

Trading companies -- China

Rhône River Valley (Switzerland and France) -- Description and travel

Kusakabe, Kinbē, 1841-1932

G. Prat photograph album of China and Japan, Series I./repositories/3/archival_objects/1004551 1874-1900

[G. Prat photograph album of China and Japan]: 1878-1896

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box 1*

Album, /repositories/3/archival_objects/1004554 1874-1896

Arrangement

In original order.

box 1*, item front cover

Front cover, 98.R.14-fc/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004558 1874

box 1*, page front paste-down endpaper

Front paste-down endpaper, 98.R.14-fpe/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004561 1874

box 1*, page front free endpaper

Front free endpaper, 98.R.14-ffe/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004562 1874

Scope and Contents

Inscribed on page: G. Prat.

box 1*, page Verso of front free endpaper

Verso of front free endpaper, 98.R.14-fev/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004565 1874

box 1*, page 1

Photographer unidentified, Trombe du 10 avril 1878: Vue de la maison W. Pustau & Co., 98.R.14-p1/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004567 1878

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Considérations sur la Chine. The lower text describes the trading house depicted in the photograph.

box 1*, page 2

Photographer unidentified, Trombe du 10 avril 1878: Le go down de Messrs. Siemssen & Co. en partie du consulat anglais, 98.R.14-p2/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004570 1878

Scope and Contents

The word godown, meaning warehouse, likely came into English from the Malay gedong ( gadang, gudang, gedung).

Header for upper text: Climat.

box 1*, page 3

Photographer unidentified, Trombe du 10 avril 1878: Vue des maisons Jardine, Matheson & Co. (côté nord), 98.R.14-p3/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004573 1878

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Tourbillons - trombes et typhons - calamités.

box 1*, page 4

Photographer unidentified, Trombe du 10 avril 1878: Jardine, Matheson & Co. (côté nord), 98.R.14-p4/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004582 1878

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Typhons.

box 1*, page 5

Photographer unidentified, Trombe du 10 avril 1878: Vue du quartier chinois en face de Shameen, prise entre Messrs. Thomas & Mercer Co. & W. Pustau & Co., 98.R.14-p5/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004585 1878

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: (suite de page 4).

box 1*, page 6

Photographer unidentified, Trombe du 10 avril 1878: Vue du quai chinois (prise du fort) en face du Concordia Hall, 98.R.14-p6/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004588 1878

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: (suite de page 5).

box 1*, page 7

Photographer unidentified, Shameen: L'église anglicane et la maison du commissaire des douanes chinoises, 98.R.14-p7/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004591 1878

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Histoire de Chine.

box 1*, page 8

Photographer unidentified, Shameen: Messrs. Olyphant & Co., 98.R.14-p8/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004594 1878

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: (continuation de la page précédente, 7).

box 1*, page 9

Photographer unidentified, Verandah de la maison Russell & Co., 98.R.14-p9/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004597 1878

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: (continuation de la page précédente, 8). The two men sitting on the veranda are identified as F. Koch and J. B. Cuningham.

box 1*, page 10

Photographer unidentified, Le bateau à vapeur Kin-shaw faisant le service entre Canton et Hong Kong, 98.R.14-p10/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004600 1878

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: (continuation de la page précédente 9).

box 1*, page 11

Photographer unidentified, Hong Kong: Vue prise des jardins publics, 98.R.14-p11/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004603 1874

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: (continuation de la page précédente, 10).

box 1*, page 12

Photographer unidentified, Canton: La pagode de Pa-choc près Wampoa, 98.R.14-p12/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004606 1878

box 1*, page 13

Photographer unidentified, Canton: La pagode des Fleurs en 1878 avant sa réparation, 98.R.14-p13/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004609 1878

Scope and Contents

Two dates are present: 1878 in the caption above the image and 1874 in the caption below the image. The former date corresponds to the date when Prat was in Guangzhou, while the later date is the date of the photograph.

No header for the upper text is present.

box 1*, page 14

Photographer unidentified, Canton: La pagode des Fleurs depuis sa réparation en 1878, 98.R.14-p14/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004612 1878

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Portes d'honneur.

box 1*, page 15

Photographer unidentified, Canton: La porte du nord, 98.R.14-p15/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004615 1878

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Histoire de Chine (suite et fin des pages 7 à 11).

box 1*, page 16

Photographer unidentified, Canton: La cité tartare et la pagode mahométane, 98.R.14-p16/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004618 1878

Scope and Contents

No header for upper text which discusses the city of Canton.

box 1*, page 17

Photographer unidentified, Canton: La Brillante Pagode ou pagode mahométane, 98.R.14-p17/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004621 1878

Scope and Contents

No header for upper text which continues from the previous page.

box 1*, page 18

Photographer unidentified, Canton: La porte de l'est, 98.R.14-p18/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004624 1878

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Mandarins.

box 1*, page 19

Photographer unidentified, Canton: La Cour des Examens, 98.R.14-p19/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004627 1878

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Les lettrés.

box 1*, page 20

Photographer unidentified, Canton: La porte d'entrée des bureaux du général tartare, 98.R.14-p20/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004630 1878

Scope and Contents

No header for upper text which discusses the Tartar general.

box 1*, page 21

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Le Temple de Longévite, 98.R.14-p21/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004633 1878

Scope and Contents

There is no upper text. A later note added below the lower caption notes that the temple was burned in a Chinese riot in 1881.

box 1*, page 22

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Vue prise sur la rivière de Canton près Messrs. Russell & Co., 98.R.14-p22/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004636 1878

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Geographie physique de Canton. Histoire.

box 1*, page 23

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Les jonques de Tientsin, 98.R.14-p23/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004639 1878

Scope and Contents

No header for the upper text which continues from the previous page.

box 1*, page 24

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Ho-chu, vue prise sur la rivière de Canton près l'arsenal chinois, 98.R.14-p24/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004642 1878

Scope and Contents

No upper text.

box 1*, page 25

Photographer unidentified, Canton: La pagode des cinq étages et les murailles de Canton, 98.R.14-p25/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004645 1878

Scope and Contents

No upper text.

box 1*, page 26

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Vue prise hors des murs, 98.R.14-p26/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004648 1878

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Fonctionnaires.

box 1*, page 27

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Le fort de Macao, 98.R.14-p27/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004651 1878

Scope and Contents

The Tai-wang-kow or Yellow Pagoda Fort, also known as Macao Fort, is located on an islet approximately three miles south of Guangzhou.

Header for upper text: Voies de communication.

box 1*, page 28

Lai Fong, Canton: Ling-Wong ou gardiens du portail, 98.R.14-p28/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004654 1879

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Sculpture. Depicts two guardians, one with his arm raised above his head.

box 1*, page 29

Lai Fong, Canton: Ling-Wong ou gardiens du portail, 98.R.14-p29/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004657 1879

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: (suite de la page 28). The image depicts two guardians, one holding a stringed instrument.

Other copies of this image are captioned: No 349. Ting-Wong, or Guardians of the Portal. The number 349 had been crossed out in pencil and renumbered 350. (See: University of Bristol accession no. 6287; UB01-22).

box 1*, page 30

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Riche appartement chinois, 98.R.14-p30/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004660 1879

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: La famille. La femme.

box 1*, page 31

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Intérieur d'un appartement chinois, 98.R.14-p31/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004663 1879

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: (suite de la page 30).

box 1*, page 32

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Cimetière mahométan et mosquée, 98.R.14-32/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004666 1879

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Mahométans.

box 1*, page 33

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Wuhan, 98.R.14-p33/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004669 1879

Scope and Contents

The text, which begins below the image and wraps around to the right margin, describes Wuhan and the photograph of houses along a canal.

box 1*, page 34

Lai Fong, Canton: Intérieur du Temple des 500 Génies, 98.R.14-p34/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004672 1879

Scope and Contents

There is no upper text. The text below the image discusses religion and temples including the temple depicted.

box 1*, page 35

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Temple Li-Fat, 98.R.14-p35/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004675 1879

Scope and Contents

The upper text discusses temple architecture.

box 1*, page 36

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Consulat de France, entrée du yamén français à Canton, 98.R.14-p36/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004678 1879

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Chaises à porteurs.

box 1*, page 37

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Vue prise du Temple de Pan-lo-hang, 98.R.14-p37/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004681 1879

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: La propriété. Les produits.

box 1*, page 38

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Trombe du 10 avril 1878, 98.R.14-p38/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004684 1879

Scope and Contents

The view is of rooftops and rebuilding after the typhoon. Header for upper text: Pétitions.

box 1*, page 39

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Trombe du 10 avril 1878, faubourg occidental de Canton face au nord, 98.R.14-p39/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004687 1879

Scope and Contents

The photograph shows destruction from the typhoon that had not yet been cleared. Header for upper text: Pétitions.

box 1*, page 40

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Vue prise dans la campagne, 98.R.14-p40/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004690 1879

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: L'agriculture.

box 1*, page 41

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Vue de Shamien, 98.R.14-p41/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004693 1879

Scope and Contents

The oblique view along the river looks towards the European settlement. Below the caption various European trading houses are identified: Pustan & Co.; Thomas & Mercer; Coare, Lind & Co.

Header for upper text: Linguistique.

box 1*, page 42

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Vue de Shamien, 98.R.14-p42/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004696 1879

Scope and Contents

The view along the river looks towards the European settlement. Below the caption various European trading houses are identified including Olyphant & Co. and Carlowitz & Co.

Header for upper text: (suite de page 41).

box 1*, page 43

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Vue de Shamien, 98.R.14-p43/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004699 1879

Scope and Contents

This view along the river looks towards the European settlement. Below the caption European trading houses are identified: Birley & Co.; Deacon & Co. (bungalow).

Header for upper text: (suite de page 42).

box 1*, page 44

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Ancien maison Vogel Hagedorn, 98.R.14-p44/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004702 1881

Scope and Contents

The caption continues: ...en suite Vogel & Co., et plus tard louée par Messrs. Thomas, Rowe & Smith par leurs employés. It also notes that the building burned in 1883. The three men on the second story balcony are identified from left to right as: J. D. Monro; G. Prat; and E. W. Mitchell. The man sprawled on a seat near the front gate is identified as A. B. Tomkins.

Header for upper text: (suite de page 44).

box 1*, page 45

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Ancien maison Vogel Hagedorn, 98.R.14-p45/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004705 1881

Scope and Contents

The continuing caption text is a repeat of the previous page. The four men grouped on the front steps are identified as: E. W. Mitchell; G. Prat; A. B. Tomkins (holding a small dog); and J. D. Monro.

Header for upper text: (suite de page 44).

box 1*, page 46

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Maison Russell & Co., vue prise du sud-est, 98.R.14-p46/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004708 1883

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: (suite de page 45).

box 1*, page 47

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Maison Russell & Co., vue prise du sud, 98.R.14-p47/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004711 1883

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Langues et dialects chinois.

box 1*, page 48

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Shamien, vue prise de l'ouest à la est, 98.R.14-p48/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004714 1883

Scope and Contents

Depicted are the English church, the docks, and the Pearl River.

Header for upper text: (continuation de la page précédente 47).

box 1*, page 49

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Shamien, vue prise de l'ouest à l'est, 98.R.14-p49/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004717 1883

Scope and Contents

Depicted are the allée Henry Parkes and the corner of the Anglican church with the tents of Chinese soldiers pitched nearby following the anti-foreign riots on 10 September 1883.

Header for upper text: (suite et fin de la page précédente 48).

box 1*, page 50

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Allée principale de Shamien, 98.R.14-p50/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004720 1883

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: (continuation de la page précédente 49).

box 1*, page 51

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Allée principale de Shamien, vue prise de l'est à l'ouest vers le point central de la concession anglaise, 98.R.14-p51/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004723 1883

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Etiquette chinoise.

box 1*, page 52

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Vue prise du sud-est, 98.R.14-p52/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004726 1883

Scope and Contents

Depicts the American and German consulates. Header for upper text: (suite de la page précédente 51).

box 1*, page 53

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Vue prise du sud-ouest, 98.R.14-p53/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004729 1883

Scope and Contents

The view is of the corner of the German consulate and several trading houses.

There is no upper text.

box 1*, page 54

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Shaimen, le club, 98.R.14-p54/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004732 1883

Scope and Contents

The Canton Club is pictured in the center flanked by Carlowitz & Co. on its left, and the home of the American millionaire, Mr. White, on its right.

There is no upper text.

box 1*, page 55

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Shamien, la condition des soies brûlées le 10 sept. 1883, 98.R.14-p55/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004735 1883

Scope and Contents

The photograph shows the state of the Thomas, Rowe, & Smith and Russell & Co. silk houses and the recently established Condition des soies (Silk Inspection House) after the anti-foreign riots.

There is no upper text.

box 1*, page 56

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Shamien, allée sud de la concession, 98.R.14-p56/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004738 1883

Scope and Contents

The image shows the tents of the Chinese army pitched on the green after it was called in to defend the concession following the September 10 anti-foreign riots.

There is no upper text.

box 1*, page 57

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Shamien, soldats chinois chargés de la défense de la concession après le 10 septembre 1883, 98.R.14-p57/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004741 1883

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Mandarins et leurs cortèges. Header for text on left border: Parasols rouges.

box 1*, page 58

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Shamien, le théâtre, 98.R.14-p58/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004837 1883

Scope and Contents

View of the theater after it was partially burned during the September 10 riots.

There is no upper text.

box 1*, page 59

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Vue prise sur la rivière de la concession, 98.R.14-p59/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004840 1883

Scope and Contents

View across dock crowded with sampans to the steamer Powan.

Header for upper text: Voies de communication (suite de la page 27).

box 1*, page 60

Photographer unidentified, [Canton: Chinese Army Encampment], 98.R.14-p60/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004843 1883

Scope and Contents

The page contains two photographs with a text in the right margin regarding the Chinese army encampment. The caption for the upper photograph reads: Vue prise sur la quai de Shamien et campement des soldats chinois. The caption for the upper photograph reads: Concession française et campement chinoises du côté de la ville indigène. The burned icehouse appears in the middle ground of this image.

box 1*, page 61

Photographer unidentified, [Canton: Boats on the River], 98.R.14-p61/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004846 1883

Scope and Contents

The page contains two photographs with a text in the left margin regarding various boats and ships. The caption for the upper photograph reads: Cannonière chinoise Cheng-Bo. The text below the lower photograph notes the gunboats Swift and Epsilon, the cargo ships S.S. Posang and S.S. Ningbo, and the cannonboat Luitin.

box 1*, page 62

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Émeute du 10 septembre 1883 - maison incendiée - Mr. Hollwill, Mr. Rocher, 98.R.14-p62/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004849 1883

Scope and Contents

No upper text.

box 1*, page 63

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Émeute du 10 septembre 1883, Mr. Holwill, Mr. Rocher, Mr. Raven, Mr. Pustau, Mr. Sampson, 98.R.14-p63/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004852 1883

Scope and Contents

The photograph shows a row of damaged trading houses.

box 1*, page 64

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Messrs. Thomas, Row & Smith (junior men) pilée et brûlée le 10 septembre 1883, 98.R.14-p64/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004855 1883

box 1*, page 65

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Messrs. Thomas, Row & Smith (junior men) vue du côté de l'entrée principale (sud) pilée et brûlée le 10 septembre 1883, 98.R.14-p65/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004858 1883

box 1*, page 66

Photographer unidentified, Canton: La condition des soies brûlées le 10 septembre 1883, 98.R.14-p66/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004861 1883

Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts the former house of Pustau & Co. encased in bamboo scaffolding.

box 1*, page 67

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Tentes chinoises - bowling alley - le théâtre - le poste de police et l'incendie - brûlés le 10 septembre 1883, 98.R.14-p67/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004864 1883

Scope and Contents

The photograph shows the theater and the tents of the Chinese army pitched opposite it.

box 1*, page 68

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Campement chinois établi le long du canal vers la ville indigène, 98.R.14-p68/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004867 1883

Scope and Contents

The view includes the corner of a tent and part of the icehouse; more tents and burned trading[?] houses are in the distance.

box 1*, page 69

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Shamien, vue de la concession anglaise, 98.R.14-p69/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004870 1883

Scope and Contents

View of the S.S. Chinkiang and the Lutin on the Pearl River with the English concession to the left.

box 1*, page 70

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Vue prise de la rivière des Perles, 98.R.14-p70/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004873 1883

Scope and Contents

Caption continues: pouvant donner une idée du mouvement continuel qui y existe et de l'importance de la population flotante.

Header for upper text: Les missionaires.

box 1*, page 71

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Ville de Canton et cathéderal catholique à l'intérieur des murs construite sur l'emplacement du Yámen de l'ancien Vice-Roi "Yeh," 98.R.14-p71/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004876 1883

Scope and Contents

The view looks across a river crowded with sampans to the cathedral in the distance.

There is no header for the upper and side texts which continue from the previous pages.

box 1*, page 72

Lai Fong, Canton: Rivière des Perles, 98.R.14-p72/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004879 1883

Scope and Contents

View of the dock and river crowded with sampans bearing passengers and goods.

Header for upper text: Gouvernement - Administration.

(See: University of Bristol accession no. BL-s218).

box 1*, page 73

Lai Fong, Whampoa: Docks, 98.R.14-p73/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004882 1881

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: (suite de la page 72).

box 1*, page 74

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Ancienne maison Russell & Co., 98.R.14-p74/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004885 1877

Scope and Contents

The caption continues: ...seriez l'emplacement des anciens comptoirs chinois (hongs) (1858-1879). Header for upper text: (suite de page 73).

box 1*, page 75

Photographer unidentified, [Canton: Rooftop View], 98.R.14-p75/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004888 1883

Scope and Contents

Among the sites idenfied below the image are the French and English concessions and the "faubourgs occidentaux." Header for upper text: (suite de la page précédente 74).

box 1*, page 76

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Bureaux de la douane chinoise (Haï-Kouan), 98.R.14-p76/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004891 1883

Scope and Contents

The caption continues: Bâteaux des indigènes. Résidence des européens au service de la douane chinoise. Bouée de vapeur de Macao.

Header for upper text: Les douanes.

box 1*, page 77

Lai Fong, Canton: Le principale rue de bibelots, 98.R.14-p77/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004894 1883

Scope and Contents

There is no header for the texts flanking either side of the photograph which discuss Chinese streets.

box 1*, page 78

Photographer unidentified, Canton: La porte de l'ouest, 98.R.14-p78/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004897 1883

Scope and Contents

Header for upper text: Dons; cadeaux; présents.

box 1*, page 79

Photographer unidentified, [Canton: View of the City from the Countryside], 98.R.14-p79/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004900 1883

Scope and Contents

Sites identified below the image include: Marché de Koun-shoun, chef-lieu de district; Montagnes de Saï-chou; Plantation de cane à sucre. Header for upper text: Les champs, les impôts.

box 1*, page 80

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Riche tombe chinoise, 98.R.14-p80/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004903 1883

Scope and Contents

Header for upper and side texts: Dévotion envers des ancêtres.

box 1*, page 81

Photographer unidentified, Canton: Báteau Fleur de Canton, 98.R.14-p81/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004906 1883

Scope and Contents

There is no upper text.

box 1*, page 82

Blank page, 98.R.14-p82/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004909 1874

box 1*, page 83

Blank page, 98.R.14-p83/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004912 1874

box 1*, page 84

Blank page, 98.R.14-p84/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004915 1874

box 1*, page 85

Blank page, 98.R.14-p85/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004918 1874

box 1*, page 86

Blank page, 98.R.14-p86/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004921 1874

box 1*, page 87

Blank page, 98.R.14-p87/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004924 1874

box 1*, page 88

Blank page, 98.R.14-p88/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004927 1874

box 1*, page 89

Blank page, 98.R.14-89/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005763 1874

box 1*, page 90

Blank page, 98.R.14-p90/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004930 1874

box 1*, page 91

Photographer unidentified, Le Japon en 1896: Vue de Nagasaki, 98.R.14-p91/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004933 1896

Scope and Contents

Hand-colored albumen print. No upper text.

box 1*, page 92

Kusakabe Kinbē, Kobe, 98.R.14-p92/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004936 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: B. 1205. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: Vue panoramique de Kobé ou Hiogo et de ses quais. Hand colored-albumen print.

box 1*, page 93

Kusakabe Kinbē, Kobe, 98.R.14-p93/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004939 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: A. 1205. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: Vue panoramique de Kobé ou Hiogo et les ses quais. Hand colored-albumen print.

box 1*, page 94

Kusakabe Kinbē, Biwa Lake, from Miidera, 98.R.14-p94/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004942 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Caption and numbered in negative: 1259. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: Otsou et le lac Bioua ou Biwa. Vue prise de la terrasse Meiidera. Hand colored-albumen print.

box 1*, page 95

Kusakabe Kinbē, Festival Lanterns, Bentendori, Yokohama, 98.R.14-p95/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004945 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: 520. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: la fête des lanternes, rue Bendentori à Yokohama. Hand-colored albumen print.

box 1*, page 96

Kusakabe Kinbē, Yokohama, 98.R.14-p96/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004948 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: 560. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: Vue panoramique de Kobé (portion de la ville commerçante indigène et des quartiers européens). Hand-colored albumen print.

box 1*, page 97

Kusakabe Kinbē, Yokohama, 98.R.14-p97/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004951 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: 545. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: Autre vue panoramique de Yokohama (ville japonaise). Hand-colored albumen print.

box 1*, page 98

Photographer unidentified, Le Japon en 1896: Le consulat de France à Yokohama, 98.R.14-p98/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004954 1896

Scope and Contents

The view is from the canal and the consulat is shown in the middle ground on the bank above it.

box 1*, page 99

Kusakabe Kinbē, Railway Station Yokohama, 98.R.14-p99/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004957 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: 544. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: La gare de chemin de fer à Yokohama. Hand-colored albumen print.

box 1*, page 100

Kusakabe Kinbē, Main Steet, Tokio, 98.R.14-p100/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004960 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: 626. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: Vue de la principale rue de Tokio. Hand-colored albumen print.

box 1*, page 101

Kusakabe Kinbē, Prince Hotta's Garden, Tokio, 98.R.14-p101/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004963 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: 643. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: Vue du jardin du Prince Hotta à Tokio. Hand-colored albumen print.

box 1*, page 102

Kusakabe Kinbē, Autumn View of Maples, Oji, Tokio, 98.R.14-p102/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004966 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: 637. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: Aspect automnal d'érables à Odji, quartier de Tokio. Hand-colored albumen print.

box 1*, page 103

Kusakabe Kinbē, Uyeno Park, Tokio, 98.R.14-p103/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004969 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: 667. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: Vue du coin du park Uyeno ou Ouyeno à Tokio. Hand-colored albumen print.

box 1*, page 104

Kusakabe Kinbē, Osaka, 98.R.14-p104/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004972 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: 1228. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: Vue de Osaka. Hand-colored albumen print. The view is of the rooftops of the city.

box 1*, page 105

Kusakabe Kinbē, Fuji from Yoshiwara (Tokaido), 98.R.14-p105/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004975 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: P 81. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: Vue du Fusi-yama et du Tokaïdo prise de Yoshiwara. Hand-colored albumen print.

box 1*, page 106

Kusakabe Kinbē, Fuji from Hakone's Lake, 98.R.14-p106/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004978 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: E. 47. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: Vue de Fusi-yama prise de lac Hakoné. Hand-colored albumen print.

box 1*, page 107

Kusakabe Kinbē, Fuji from Otometōge, 98.R.14-p107/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004984 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: E. 5r. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: autre vue de Fuji-yama et de la campagne japonaise prise de Otométogué. Hand-colored albumen print.

box 1*, page 108

Kusakabe Kinbē, Girl in Summer Costume, 98.R.14-p108/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004981 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: 337. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: Une mousmée ou jeune fille japonaise en costume d'été. Hand-colored albumen print.

box 1*, page 109

Kusakabe Kinbē, Winter Costume, 98.R.14-p109/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004987 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: 86. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: Une mousmée ou jeune fille japonaise en costume d'hiver. Hand-colored albumen print.

box 1*, page 110

Kusakabe Kinbē, Eating, 98.R.14-p110/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004990 1896

Scope and Contents

Title from caption in negative. Numbered in negative: 51. Caption on album page: Le Japon en 1896: Repas de jeunes filles ou mousmées dans une maison de thé à Yokohama. Hand-colored albumen print.

box 1*, page 111

Photographer unidentified, [Actors in Alonso the Brave and the Fair Imogene or Faust and Mephistopheles ], 98.R.14-p111/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004993 1882

Scope and Contents

Page with three photographs of actors in the December 22, 1882, Canton Amateur Theatrical Society (CATS) production of Alonso the Brave and the Fair Imogene or Faust and Mephistopheles. Depicted from left to right are Faust and Imogene, the first and second soldiers, and Sybel. The other roles and the names of the actors playing them are noted.

Header for upper text: Barbares-diables étranges.

box 1*, page 112

Photographer unidentified, [Two Scenes from Alonso the Brave and the Fair Imogene or Faust and Mephistopheles ], 98.R.14-p112/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004996 1882

Scope and Contents

Page with two photographs of actors in the December 22, 1882, Canton Amateur Theatrical Society (CATS) production of Alonso the Brave and the Fair Imogene or Faust and Mephistopheles. Depicted on the left are Dr. Faust and Alonso, and on the right, Alonso and Imogen. The other roles and the names of the actors playing them are noted.

Header for upper text: (suite de la page précédente 111).

box 1*, page 113

Photographer unidentified, Alonso the Brave, Mrs. Jack (G. Prat), dans le rôle de Dame Martha, 98.R.14-p113/repositories/3/archival_objects/1004999 1882

Scope and Contents

Page with two photographs of G. Prat in the December 22, 1882, Canton Amateur Theatrical Society (CATS) production of Alonso the Brave and the Fair Imogene or Faust and Mephistopheles.

Header for lower text: (suite de la page 112 ci-contre).

box 1*, page 114

Photographer unidentified,, Translation des restes mortels de l'ancien vice-roi de Canton "Yeh," 98.R.14-p114/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005002 ca. 1883

Scope and Contents

Photographic reproduction of a painting by M. Baptista showing the return of the remains of Ye Mingchen, the viceroy of Liang Kuang, to China after he died in exile in Calcutta. Header for upper text: Mandarins, sceaux, boutons, et décorations.

box 1*, page 115

Photographer unidentified, [Five Actors in L'amour d'une ingénue], 98.R.14-p115/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005005 1882

Scope and Contents

Scene from the November 11, 1882, Canton Amateur Theatrical Society's (CATS) one act productions. Actors and their lines are noted.

Note for lower text: (voir la suite page 116 ci-derrière).

box 1*, page 116

Photographer unidentified, [Two Scenes from L'amour d'une ingénue], 98.R.14-p116/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005008 1882

Scope and Contents

Page contains two photographs of scenes from the November 11, 1882, Canton Amateur Theatrical Society's (CATS) one act productions. The roles and the names of the actors playing them are noted.

Note for lower text: (suite de la page 115 ci-derrière).

box 1*, page 117

Photographer unidentified, [Two Scenes from J'invite le colonel], 98.R.14-p117/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005011 1882

Scope and Contents

Scenes from the November 11, 1882, Canton Amateur Theatrical Society's (CATS) one act production. The roles and the names of the actors playing them are noted.

Note for lower text: (suite de la page 116 ci-contre).

box 1*, page 118

Photographer unidentified, [Two Scenes from Le serment de Horace], 98.R.14-p118/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005014 1882

Scope and Contents

Scenes from the December 7, 1882, Canton Amateur Theatrical Society's (CATS) one act productions. The roles and the names of the actors playing them are noted.

Note for lower text: (suite de la page 117 ci-derrière).

box 1*, page 119

Photographer unidentified, [Two Scenes from Les deux Timedes], 98.R.14-p119/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005017 1882

Scope and Contents

Scenes from the December 7, 1882, Canton Amateur Theatrical Society's (CATS) one act production. The roles and the names of the actors playing them are noted.

Note for lower text: (suite de la page 118 ci-contre). The note is dated: Villenueve-de-Berg, novembre, 1900.

box 1*, page 120

Photographer unidentified, Canton: H. B. W.'s SS Swift, 98.R.14-p120/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005020 1883

box 1*, page 121

Photographer unidentified, Chine: La Victorieuse cuirassé portant pavillon du contre-amiral Meyer, 98.R.14-p121/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005023 1881-1883

Scope and Contents

The names and ranks of the ship's personnel are listed and the text discusses the ship.

box 1*, page 122

Photographer unidentified, [Canton: The Community Members of Shamian Island], 98.R.14-p122/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005026 1883

Scope and Contents

Group portrait taken on a lawn of the members of the European community in Canton. Individuals are identified below the photograph and there is a brief description of the community's composition.

box 1*, page 123

Photographer unidentified, Hongkong: Les jardins publics, 98.R.14-p123/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005029 1879

Scope and Contents

Header for upper and side texts: Opium.

box 1*, page 124

Photographer unidentified, Hongkong: L'Hôtel de Ville, 98.R.14-p124/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005032 1879

Scope and Contents

Header for upper and side texts: (suite de la page précédente 123).

box 1*, page 125

Photographer unidentified, Hongkong: Le vapeur City of Peking dans les docks Aberdeen, 98.R.14-p125/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005035 1879

Scope and Contents

Header for upper and side texts: (suite de la page précédente 124).

box 1*, page 126

Photographer unidentified, Hongkong: Quai Peddar et la tour de l'Horloge, 98.R.14-p126/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005038 1879

Scope and Contents

Headers for upper and side texts: (suite de la page précédente 125); Petits pieds et ongles longs.

box 1*, page 127

Photographer unidentified, Hongkong: Rue de la reine (centrale) partie occupée par les Chinois sur les deux côtés, 98.R.14-p127/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005041 1879

Scope and Contents

Header for upper and side texts: (suite de la page précédente 126).

box 1*, page 128

Photographer unidentified, Hongkong: Bowrington Praya (quai Bowrington), 98.R.14-p128/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005114 1879

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Photographer unidentified, Hongkong: Bowrington Praya, résidences ou bureaux de quelques maisons commerciales, 98.R.14-p129/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005117 1879

Scope and Contents

The locations of the trading houses and other businesses are noted below the image.

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Photographer unidentified, Mr. E. W. Mitchell dans ses divers rôles, 98.R.14-p130/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005120 1881

Scope and Contents

The page contains three photographs of Mitchell playing various roles for the Canton Amateur Theatrical Society. He was also the troupe's stage manager.

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Photographer unidentified, Blue Beard Burlesque, 98.R.14-p131/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005123 1881

Scope and Contents

Cast portrait of the Canton Amateur Theatrical Society's February 17, 1881 production. Players and their roles are listed below the image.

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Photographer unidentified, Macao: Le maison du gouveneur et le poste de police sur le quai, 98.R.14-p132/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005126 1879

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Photographer unidentified, Macao: La grotte de Camoens, 98.R.14-p133/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005129 1879

Scope and Contents

The text flanking the image discusses the Portuguese poet, Luís Vaz de Camões, who was exiled to Macau.

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Photographer unidentified, Macao: Casernes des troupes indiennes et bureau central de police, 98.R.14-p134/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005132 1879

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Photographer unidentified, Macao: L'hôpital, 98.R.14-p135/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005135 1879

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Photographer unidentified, Macao: Fort de Saint-François et casernes, 98.R.14-p136/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005159 1879

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Photographer unidentified, Macao: Cimetière catholique, 98.R.14-p137/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005138 1879

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Photographer unidentified, Macao: Le phare, 98.R.14-p138/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005141 1879

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Photographer unidentified, Macao: Temple chinois sur les bords du port intérieur, 98.R.14-p139/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005162 1879

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Photographer unidentified, Macao: Résidence d'été du gouverneur, 98.R.14-p140/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005144 1879

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Photographer unidentified, Macao: Maison Thomas G. Mercer, 98.R.14-p141/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005147 1879

Scope and Contents

The group portrait depicts G. Prat's friend, E. W. Mitchell, who worked for Mercer as a tea taster, with his Chinese staff.

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Photographer unidentified, Macao: Maison Thomas G. Mercer, 98.R.14-p142/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005150 1879

Scope and Contents

View of the trading house with E. W. Mitchell standing on the veranda.

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Photographer unidentified, Bal masqué chez Mr. & Mm. G. M. Smith (Jardine, Matheson & Co.), 98.R.14-p143/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005153 1879

Scope and Contents

The page contains two photographs of the costumed actors. The names of the players, their nationalities, and their roles are listed below the image. Header for upper text: Quelques locuitons pidgin english.

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Photographer unidentified, Bal masqué chez Mr. & Mm. G. M. Smith (Jardine, Matheson & Co.), 98.R.14-p144/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005156 1879

Scope and Contents

Group portrait of all the actors in costume.

Header for upper and side texts: (suite de la page précédente 143).

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Photographer unidentified, [G. Prat and Friends], 98.R.14-p145/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005165 1878

Scope and Contents

G. Prat and seven friends posed on porch steps.

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Photographer unidentified, [G. Prat and Friends on Porch], 98.R.14-p146/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005168 1878

Scope and Contents

Prat, sitting on the steps, is posed with seven friends. Header for side texts: Quelques locutions pidgin english (suite de la page précédente 145).

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Photographer unidentified, Lawn Tennis, 98.R.14-p147/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005171 1877

Scope and Contents

The names of the people gathered for the group portrait are recorded below the image. Although the British began playing tennis on croquet lawns in 1877, calling it lawn tennis, some of the people in this group portrait are holding croquet mallets, and there is a croquet ball centered on the lawn in front of the group. Only one man, seen in the back row left, holds a tennis racquet.

Header for upper and side texts: (suite de la page précédente 146).

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Photographer unidentified, Bungalow de Messrs. Thomas & Mercer, 98.R.14-p148/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005174 1877

Scope and Contents

G. Prat and J. D. Monro sit on the steps of the employee bungalow flanked by three Chinese staff.

Header for upper and side texts: (suite de la page précédente 147).

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Blank page, 98.R.14-149/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005177 1874

Scope and Contents

The page is unnumbered.

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Back free endpaper 98.R.14-bfe/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005180 1874

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Back paste-down endpaper 98.R.14-p/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005183 1874

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Back cover, 98.R.14-bc/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005186 1874

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Loose photographs, /repositories/3/archival_objects/1004557 1877-1900

Scope and Contents

Arranged topically in three groups: European community in Guangzhou; Guangzhou views; Rhone River Valley views.

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The European community in Guangzhou, /repositories/3/archival_objects/1005356 1877-1883

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Photographer unidentified, [G. Prat and Friends on Porch], 98.R.14-1/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005189 1878

Scope and Contents

This is another copy of the photograph on page 146 of the album.

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Photographer unidentified, [G. Prat and Friends], 98.R.14-2/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005198 1878

Scope and Contents

This is another copy of the photograph that appears on page 145 of the album.

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Photographer unidentified, [Scene from Le serment de Horace], 98.R.14-3/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005195 1882

Scope and Contents

The photograph is another copy of the one that appears on the left side of page 118 of the album.

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Li Yong, [Studio Portrait of Four Mustachioed Young European Men] 98.R.14-4/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005192 1879

Scope and Contents

The photographer's name and address are wet stamped on the mount below the image: Li Yong photography. Sheng Cheng, 18 Fu (or Pu?). Translation by Susan Chow.

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Photographer unidentified, [Scene from Les deux Timedes, with One Actor Seated], 98.R.14-5/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005381 1882

Scope and Contents

The photograph is another copy of the one that appears on the right side of page 119 of the album.

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Photographer unidentified, [Scene from Les deux Timedes], 98.R.14-6/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005384 1882

Scope and Contents

The photograph is another copy of the one that appears on the left side of page 119 of the album.

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Photographer unidentified, [Scene from Le serment de Horace] with Couple in the Center], 98.R.14-7/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005387 1882

Scope and Contents

The photograph is another copy of the one that appears on the right side of page 118 of the album.

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Photographer unknown, [Studio Portrait of Six European Men, One Holding a Parasol], 98.R.14-8/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005389 between 1877 and 1883

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Photographer(s) unknown, Guangzhou views, /repositories/3/archival_objects/1005393 1900

Scope and Contents

Written on the versos of all photographs in either pencil or pen: Canton 1900. The photographs themselves may be of an earlier date.

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[Two Guardian Statues] 98.R.14-9/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005390

Scope and Contents

Numbered in upper left corner of verso: Pages 28 bis et 29 bis. The ink description on the verso references the photographs of the guardians found on pages 28 and 29 of the album.

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La Crique (Back Road de Namseen) 98.r.14-10/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005394

Scope and Contents

Title from annotation pencilled on verso. The photograph depicts a narrow waterway crowded with tethered sampans.

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Intérieur du temple de 500 génies 98.R.14-11/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005395

Scope and Contents

Title from annotation pencilled on verso.

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Autre vue du quai chinois 98.R.14-12/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005397

Scope and Contents

Title from beginning of descriptive annotation pencilled on verso.

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Dockyard des torpilleures à Whampoa 98.R.14-13/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005398

Scope and Contents

Title from anotation pencilled on verso.

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Autre côté de Cour des Examens 98.R.14-14/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005399

Scope and Contents

Title from beginning of descriptive annotation pencilled on verso. Numbered in upper left corner of verso: Page 19 bis. This image is related to the one on page 19 of the album.

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Autre aspect du Macao fort 98.R.14-15/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005402

Scope and Contents

Title from beginning of descriptive annotation pencilled on verso. Numbered in upper left corner of verso: Page 27 bis. This image is related to the one on page 27 of the album.

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Photographer(s) unknown, Rhône Valley views, /repositories/3/archival_objects/1005403 1880s

Scope and Contents

Albumen prints mounted on gray or cream board.

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Rhône: Tombeau du maréchal de Castellane, 98.R.14-16/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005405 1880s

Scope and Contents

Title from annotation pencilled on verso.

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[Steamers and Cargo at the Docks], 98.R.14-17/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005408 1880s

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Barbe et le Mont d'Or, vue du Fort de Cuire, 98.R.14-18/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005409 1880

Scope and Contents

Title from annotation on verso. Dated on verso: 4 juliett '80.

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L'Ardèche de la route de Ruoms, 98.R.14-19/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005411 1880

Scope and Contents

Title from caption on verso, which continues: ...vue prise de la rive gauche. 26 septembre 80. Written in upper left corner of verso: (Ardèche).

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Toulon: Le port (darse vieille), 98.R.14-20/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005414 1880s

Scope and Contents

Title from annotation pencilled on verso.

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[Crowd and Parading Dignitaries], 98.R.14-21/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005417 1880s

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Liste de vues à demander à Canton, 98.R.14-s1/repositories/3/archival_objects/1005201 between 1884 and 1900

Scope and Contents

The single sheet folded in half to create four pages contains an undated manuscript list with descriptions of 19 photographs of Canton that Prat wishes to acquire. At the end of the list he explains that they could be sold to residents of Canton or to "globe trotters" as souvenirs, and that he hopes to be the one to facilitate this. He also explains which photographs would be easy to obtain and which would require permission of the subjects represented, or in the case of number 17, the festival of the dragon boat, would need to be taken on a specific date, here "le 5me jour de le 5me lune."