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
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.
Physical Location: Request access to the physical materials described in this inventory through the
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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.
Publication Rights
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.
1874-1900
[G. Prat photograph album of China and Japan]: 1878-1896
box 1*
Album,
1874-1896
Arrangement
In original order.
box 1*, item front cover
Front cover, 98.R.14-fc
1874
box 1*, page front paste-down
endpaper
Front paste-down endpaper, 98.R.14-fpe
1874
box 1*, page front free
endpaper
Front free endpaper, 98.R.14-ffe
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
1874
box 1*, page 1
Photographer unidentified, Trombe du 10 avril 1878: Vue de la maison W. Pustau & Co., 98.R.14-p1
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1878
box 1*, page 13
Photographer unidentified, Canton: La pagode des Fleurs en 1878 avant sa réparation, 98.R.14-p13
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
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
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
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
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
1878
Scope and Contents
Header for upper text: Mandarins.
box 1*, page 19
Photographer unidentified, Canton: La Cour des Examens, 98.R.14-p19
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
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
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
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
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
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
1878
Scope and Contents
No upper text.
box 1*, page 26
Photographer unidentified, Canton: Vue prise hors des murs, 98.R.14-p26
1878
Scope and Contents
Header for upper text: Fonctionnaires.
box 1*, page 27
Photographer unidentified, Canton: Le fort de Macao, 98.R.14-p27
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
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
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
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
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
1879
Scope and Contents
Header for upper text: Mahométans.
box 1*, page 33
Photographer unidentified, Canton: Wuhan, 98.R.14-p33
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1879
Scope and Contents
Header for upper text: L'agriculture.
box 1*, page 41
Photographer unidentified, Canton: Vue de Shamien, 98.R.14-p41
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1883
box 1*, page 66
Photographer unidentified, Canton: La condition des soies brûlées le 10 septembre 1883, 98.R.14-p66
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1883
Scope and Contents
There is no upper text.
box 1*, page 82
Blank page, 98.R.14-p82
1874
box 1*, page 83
Blank page, 98.R.14-p83
1874
box 1*, page 84
Blank page, 98.R.14-p84
1874
box 1*, page 85
Blank page, 98.R.14-p85
1874
box 1*, page 86
Blank page, 98.R.14-p86
1874
box 1*, page 87
Blank page, 98.R.14-p87
1874
box 1*, page 88
Blank page, 98.R.14-p88
1874
box 1*, page 89
Blank page, 98.R.14-89
1874
box 1*, page 90
Blank page, 98.R.14-p90
1874
box 1*, page 91
Photographer unidentified, Le Japon en 1896: Vue de Nagasaki, 98.R.14-p91
1896
Scope and Contents
Hand-colored albumen print. No upper text.
box 1*, page 92
Kusakabe Kinbē, Kobe, 98.R.14-p92
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1883
box 1*, page 121
Photographer unidentified, Chine:
La Victorieuse cuirassé portant pavillon du contre-amiral
Meyer,
98.R.14-p121
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1879
box 1*, page 129
Photographer unidentified, Hongkong: Bowrington Praya, résidences ou bureaux de quelques maisons commerciales, 98.R.14-p129
1879
Scope and Contents
The locations of the trading houses and other businesses are noted below the image.
box 1*, page 130
Photographer unidentified, Mr. E. W. Mitchell dans ses divers rôles, 98.R.14-p130
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.
box 1*, page 131
Photographer unidentified,
Blue Beard Burlesque,
98.R.14-p131
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.
box 1*, page 132
Photographer unidentified, Macao: Le maison du gouveneur et le poste de police sur le quai, 98.R.14-p132
1879
box 1*, page 133
Photographer unidentified, Macao: La grotte de Camoens, 98.R.14-p133
1879
Scope and Contents
The text flanking the image discusses the Portuguese poet, Luís Vaz de Camões, who was exiled to Macau.
box 1*, page 134
Photographer unidentified, Macao: Casernes des troupes indiennes et bureau central de police, 98.R.14-p134
1879
box 1*, page 135
Photographer unidentified, Macao: L'hôpital, 98.R.14-p135
1879
box 1*, page 136
Photographer unidentified, Macao: Fort de Saint-François et casernes, 98.R.14-p136
1879
box 1*, page 137
Photographer unidentified, Macao: Cimetière catholique, 98.R.14-p137
1879
box 1*, page 138
Photographer unidentified, Macao: Le phare, 98.R.14-p138
1879
box 1*, page 139
Photographer unidentified, Macao: Temple chinois sur les bords du port intérieur, 98.R.14-p139
1879
box 1*, page 140
Photographer unidentified, Macao: Résidence d'été du gouverneur, 98.R.14-p140
1879
box 1*, page 141
Photographer unidentified, Macao: Maison Thomas G. Mercer, 98.R.14-p141
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.
box 1*, page 142
Photographer unidentified, Macao: Maison Thomas G. Mercer, 98.R.14-p142
1879
Scope and Contents
View of the trading house with E. W. Mitchell standing on the veranda.
box 1*, page 143
Photographer unidentified, Bal masqué chez Mr. & Mm. G. M. Smith (Jardine, Matheson & Co.), 98.R.14-p143
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.
box 1*, page 144
Photographer unidentified, Bal masqué chez Mr. & Mm. G. M. Smith (Jardine, Matheson & Co.), 98.R.14-p144
1879
Scope and Contents
Group portrait of all the actors in costume.
Header for upper and side texts: (suite de la page précédente 143).
box 1*, page 145
Photographer unidentified, [G. Prat and Friends], 98.R.14-p145
1878
Scope and Contents
G. Prat and seven friends posed on porch steps.
box 1*, page 146
Photographer unidentified, [G. Prat and Friends on Porch], 98.R.14-p146
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).
box 1*, page 147
Photographer unidentified, Lawn Tennis, 98.R.14-p147
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).
box 1*, page 148
Photographer unidentified, Bungalow de Messrs. Thomas & Mercer, 98.R.14-p148
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).
box 1*, page 149
Blank page, 98.R.14-149
1874
Scope and Contents
The page is unnumbered.
box 1*, page Back free
endpaper
Back free endpaper 98.R.14-bfe
1874
box 1*, page Back paste-down
Back paste-down endpaper 98.R.14-p
1874
box 1*, item Back cover
Back cover, 98.R.14-bc
1874
box 1*
Loose photographs,
1877-1900
Scope and Contents
Arranged topically in three groups: European community in Guangzhou; Guangzhou views; Rhone River Valley views.
box 1*
The European community in Guangzhou,
1877-1883
box 1*
Photographer unidentified, [G. Prat and Friends on Porch], 98.R.14-1
1878
Scope and Contents
This is another copy of the photograph on page 146 of the album.
box 1*
Photographer unidentified, [G. Prat and Friends], 98.R.14-2
1878
Scope and Contents
This is another copy of the photograph that appears on page 145 of the album.
box 1*
Photographer unidentified, [Scene from
Le serment de Horace],
98.R.14-3
1882
Scope and Contents
The photograph is another copy of the one that appears on the left side of page 118 of the album.
box 1*
Li Yong, [Studio Portrait of Four Mustachioed Young European Men] 98.R.14-4
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.
box 1*
Photographer unidentified, [Scene from
Les deux Timedes, with One Actor Seated],
98.R.14-5
1882
Scope and Contents
The photograph is another copy of the one that appears on the right side of page 119 of the album.
box 1*
Photographer unidentified, [Scene from
Les deux Timedes],
98.R.14-6
1882
Scope and Contents
The photograph is another copy of the one that appears on the left side of page 119 of the album.
box 1*
Photographer unidentified, [Scene from
Le serment de Horace] with Couple in the Center],
98.R.14-7
1882
Scope and Contents
The photograph is another copy of the one that appears on the right side of page 118 of the album.
box 1*
Photographer unknown, [Studio Portrait of Six European Men, One Holding a Parasol], 98.R.14-8
between 1877 and 1883
box 1*
Photographer(s) unknown, Guangzhou views,
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.
box 1*
[Two Guardian Statues] 98.R.14-9
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.
box 1*
La Crique (Back Road de Namseen) 98.r.14-10
Scope and Contents
Title from annotation pencilled on verso. The photograph depicts a narrow waterway crowded with tethered sampans.
box 1*
Intérieur du temple de 500 génies 98.R.14-11
Scope and Contents
Title from annotation pencilled on verso.
box 1*
Autre vue du quai chinois 98.R.14-12
Scope and Contents
Title from beginning of descriptive annotation pencilled on verso.
box 1*
Dockyard des torpilleures à Whampoa 98.R.14-13
Scope and Contents
Title from anotation pencilled on verso.
box 1*
Autre côté de Cour des Examens 98.R.14-14
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.
box 1*
Autre aspect du Macao fort 98.R.14-15
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.
box 1*
Photographer(s) unknown, Rhône Valley views,
1880s
Scope and Contents
Albumen prints mounted on gray or cream board.
box 1*
Rhône: Tombeau du maréchal de Castellane, 98.R.14-16
1880s
Scope and Contents
Title from annotation pencilled on verso.
box 1*
[Steamers and Cargo at the Docks], 98.R.14-17
1880s
box 1*
Barbe et le Mont d'Or, vue du Fort de Cuire, 98.R.14-18
1880
Scope and Contents
Title from annotation on verso. Dated on verso: 4 juliett '80.
box 1*
L'Ardèche de la route de Ruoms, 98.R.14-19
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).
box 1*
Toulon: Le port (darse vieille), 98.R.14-20
1880s
Scope and Contents
Title from annotation pencilled on verso.
box 1*
[Crowd and Parading Dignitaries], 98.R.14-21
1880s
box 1*, item Sheet 1
Liste de vues à demander à Canton, 98.R.14-s1
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."
