Oct 21, 2003 - Sale 1981

Sale 1981 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 3,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(HONG KONG)
Wonderful album containing 40 photographs of Hong Kong and its environs including views of opium dens, a classroom scene, a group of plague inspectors posed on the street, fine street scenes, studio scenes of men eating, painting, and conducting business, a paddlewheeler, the Astor House, the Happy Valley Race Track, the railroad, the harbor and more. Albumen prints, 81/4x101/2 inches (20.9x26.7 cm.), mounted one per page recto and verso. Oblong folio, cloth, inexpertly backed. 1880s-90s