A street market in Hong Kong, China – Historic Photograph Print
(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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A window into the past: A street market in Hong Kong, China, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A street market in Hong Kong, China
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A stereo card published by C.H. Graves of Philadelphia around 1902 shows a Hong Kong street market, with two slightly offset views that merge into a single image of depth when seen through a stereoscope. Hong Kong had been a British colony since 1842, and by the early 1900s its busy Chinese districts drew Western photographers and publishers eager to show foreign commerce. Cards like this one, sold in Universal Photo Art Company mounts, were part of a large trade in armchair travel that let American families look at distant places from their parlors.
| Created / published | Phila. : C.H. Graves, Publisher, c1902. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H24471 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.H. Graves. On mount: The Universal Photo Art Co. No. 109. Exhibited: Picturing Hong Kong; photos 1850-1910 ; exhibit loan 4121-L. |
| Subjects | Markets--China--Hong Kong--1900-1910. Hong Kong (China)--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,358 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-136203 |
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