Hong Kong - Kowloon city--Rock of King Sung / Mee Fong Studio, Hong Kong. – Vintage Print
![Hong Kong - Kowloon city--Rock of King Sung / Mee Fong Studio, Hong Kong., [between 1890 and 1923] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f8/f8253bcc2144-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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A window into the past: Hong Kong - Kowloon city--Rock of King Sung / Mee Fong Studio, Hong Kong., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Hong Kong - Kowloon city--Rock of King Sung / Mee Fong Studio, Hong Kong.
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Carpenter's picture shows a large rock in Kowloon City that the record calls the Rock of King Sung, a name tied to Sung Wong Toi, the site where legend holds that the young last rulers of the Southern Song dynasty paused during their flight from the Mongol advance in the late 1270s. The print was made by Mee Fong Studio, a Hong Kong studio, and it entered the Library of Congress through the Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Carpenter's travel photographs often mixed scenic and historic sites for American readers, so the rock here is worth noticing as both a landmark and a piece of local memory.
| 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 | Rocks--China--Kowloon--1890-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,284 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-194684 |
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