Hong Kong--Wharf scene – Vintage Wall Art
![Hong Kong--Wharf scene, [between 1890 and 1923] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/23/23509bfd2130-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Hong Kong--Wharf scene comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Hong Kong--Wharf scene
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Crowded along the waterfront of Hong Kong, this view centers on the wharf and the peddlers who worked its edge, the kind of street trade that kept goods moving between ships and shore. The Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection at the Library of Congress holds a large body of photographs from the early twentieth century, when Carpenter travelled widely and recorded daily life in ports and cities across Asia. Hong Kong was then one of the busiest harbors in the world, a British colony where Chinese merchants, laborers and small traders worked side by side with shipping companies. The record dates the picture only to the years between 1890 and 1923, but its subject reflects the trade that defined the harbor in that span.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1923] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1890-1930. |
| Notes | Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Peddlers--China--Hong Kong--1890-1930. Piers & wharves--China--Hong Kong--1890-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,270 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-194680 |
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