Photograph Album of Canton

Contributing Institutions Collection Guides Browse Map About OAC

What are Collection Guides?

> Home > Getty Research Institute > Special Collections

Collection Guide

∞ https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8tb1f1m/

Collection Title:

Collection Number:

Get Items:

Photograph Album of Canton

2010.R.3

Online items available

Contact Getty Research Institute::Special Collections

View entire collection guide

Printable Guide [HTML]

Search this collection

Table of contents

Photograph album of Canton, Series I. 1870s

Photograph album of Canton, 1870s (digitized version)

view online item

box 1, page 1 recto

English "Yamoon," Residence of the British Consul in Canton, 2010.R.3-1r 1874 or 1878

Scope and Contents

The image shows a wide staircase likely located in the forecourt or garden of the building. The Flower Pagoda is present in the background. Another copy of this image appears in the G. Prat Photograph Album of China and Japan (accession no. 98.R.14) with the handwritten caption: La pagode des Fleurs en 1878, avant sa réparation.

box 1, page 2 recto

Theatrical Society in "Aladin," 2010.R.3-2r 1870s

Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts five European men in Chinese costume ranged "on stage" before a painted Chinese screen set on the veranda of a building.

box 1, page 3 recto

Chinese Temple, 2010.R.3-3r 1870s

box 1, page 4 recto

Chinese School (English Teacher), 2010.R.3-4r 1870s

Scope and Contents

This photograph is a group portrait of a class of Chinese male students and their teacher.

box 1, page 5 recto

Chinese Tea Hongs, 2010.R.3-5r 1870s

box 1, page 6 recto

Chinese Garden, 2010.R.3-6r 1870s

Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts four Chinese men ranged on the steps and first story of a two-story loggia.

box 1, page 7 recto

Le fort "Macao" près de Canton, 2010.R.3-7r 1870s

box 1, page 8 recto

"Shameen" concession européenne, vue prise de la rivière, 2010.R.3-8r 1870s

Scope and Contents

In 1859, the foreign community in Guangzhou was moved from the banks of the Pearl River to Shamian, an island built on 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 itfor their concession or settlement, while France leased the remaining land for theirs.

box 1, page 9 recto

"Shameen" concession européenne, 2010.R.3-9r 1870s

box 1, page 10 recto

"Shameen" concession européenne, bateaux chinois, 2010.R.3-10r 1870s

Scope and Contents

This photograph was taken from the opposing shore of the Pearl River and shows Chinese boats in the foreground and the official buildings of the European settlement across the river.

box 1, page 11 recto

Chinese Junks and Sampans, 2010.R.3-11r 1870s

box 1, page 12 recto

Simpson Co's. House in Canton, 2010.R.3-12r 1870s

Scope and Contents

Several European and Chinese men are ranged on the steps and porch of the house and women appear in the upper windows.

box 1, page 13 recto

English Church (Shameen), 2010.R.3-13r 1870s

Scope and Contents

View of the Shamian Christian Church built in 1865 for British Anglicans.

box 1, page 14 recto

Lai Fong, Lee-Ming-Coon Garden, Canton, 2010.R.3-14r 1870s

Scope and Contents

Title from the printed caption on the mount of another copy of this image contained in the Lai Fong album in the Clark Worswick Collection of Photographs of China and Southeast Asia (accession no. 2003.R.22, box 7). For another copy of this photograph bearing the same printed caption as well as a printed legend, see Images Related to Shanghai and Other Chinese Cities (accession no. 2007.R.15).

Caption written on mount: Chinese Tea Garden "Lee min Koon" near Canton.

box 1, page 15 recto

Tea House and Rice Field, 2010.R.3-15r 1870s

box 1, page 16 recto

Eating House, 2010.R.3-16r 1870s

box 1, page 17 recto

Chinese Houses, 2010.R.3-17r 1870s

box 1, page 18 recto

Rice Fields, 2010.R.3-18r 1870s

box 1, page 19 recto

Chinese Hongs, 2010.R.3-19r 1870s

Scope and Contents

Taken from across a field of tea plants, the view shows Chinese workers and children posing along a low mound in front of the walls of a large compound.

box 1, page 20 recto

Chinese Pagoda, 2010.R.3-20r 1870s

box 1, page 21 recto

Entrance to a Chinese Temple, 2010.R.3-21r 1870s

box 1, page 22 recto

Pic Nic Party (near Canton), 2010.R.3-22r 1870s

Scope and Contents

The group portrait includes 11 European men and one woman posed on the base of a paifang or memorial archway.

box 1, page 23 recto

Race Pic Nic, Canton (Lee min Koon), 2010.R.3-23r 1873 December

Scope and Contents

The photograph shows a large group of Europeans, primarily males, with a few women interspersed, outside one of the buildings of the Lee-Ming-Koon garden. The garden was near the Canton race track.

box 1, page 24 recto

Lai Fong, Race Meeting, December, 1873, Canton, 2010.R.3-24r 1873

Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts a large group of European men, along with a few European women and Chinese men, posed in and in front of the viewing stand. Signed in the negative: Afong.

box 1, page 25 recto

Race Course (Canton), 2010.R.3-25r 1873?

Scope and Contents

The view looking across the race course to the main pavilion shows the large crowds gathered for the races.

box 1, page 26 recto-1

Country near Canton, 2010.R.3-26r.1 1870s

box 1, page 26 recto-2

Chinese Girl, 2010.R.3-26r.2 1870s

Scope and Contents

Photographic reproduction of a painting or print.

box 1, page 27 recto

Waterfall about 100 Miles from Canton, 2010.R.3-27r 1870s

Collection Contents

Photograph album of Canton,