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Tianjin (China) -- Pictorial works.

 Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Photographs of China

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6643
Scope and content Photographs of China mounted on paperboard album pages, most identified with handwritten captions in English. Includes 52 albumen prints, six with hand-coloring; four stereoviews; one watercolor of the exterior of an unidentified Chinese structure; one print of the Customs House in Shanghai, and a small pencil sketch of a temple bell. Subjects include interior and exterior views of buildings such as temples, pagodas, a Roman Catholic cathedral, the Imperial Palace, and the Great Wall. Also...
Dates: 1870-1875.

Tianjin collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6823m
Scope and content Photographs: albumen prints of "Treaty Temple, Tientsin" and "Tientsin towards Treaty Temple," circa 1860; cabinet card photographs from Yuen Chang, photographer in the French Concession, Tientsin of Mildred, Agnes, and Edith Syke (?); cabinet card photograph from M. Maki, Japanese Photographer at the Studio of S. Takeuechi & Co., Tientsin of an unidentified Western religious figure; and photograph of the mounted detachment of the U.S. Army 15th Infantry "guarding American interests in...
Dates: circa 1860-1912.