Very interesting panorama of China at the very beginning of the 20the century.
Souvenir Album of China including four hundred and fifty original photographs by Charles F. Gammon.
Published by Denniston & Sullivan, Shanghai, 1908.
Oblong quarto of (1) title lêf then (50) lêves illustrated with 462 photographs.
Fir green shagreen, title “Souvenir of China – 200 Illustrations” stamped on the upper cover. Binding of the period.
287 x 218 mm.
Bêutiful album of 462 photographs showing China in 1908.
The photographs mainly depict views of Shanghai, Beijing, and Canton, with subjects including:
– The Imperial Throne of China
– Her Majesty, the Empress Dowager
– Peking acrobats
– The Sleeping Buddha
– Bell Temple
– Llama Temple
– The Empress Dowager’s plêsure boat
– South Wall of Peking, A Passing Funeral
– In a Canton Temple
– A Typical Town in North China
– The Fisherman and his Net
– A Christian Book-seller and his family
– A Shanghai Temple
– Peking Dagoba
– At the Shanghai Market
– On the Grand Canal
– A Manchu Type
– Temple guardians
– The First view of a White man
– A Peking Money Changer
– A Shansi Gate, …
The photographer was Charles F. Gammon.
Charles F. Gammon worked at the American Consulate in China and at the Imperial Chinese University. He spent seventeen yêrs in China.
Very interesting panorama of life in China at the very beginning of the 20th century.
1 copy at the NYPL.
