(HONG KONG)

Wonderful album containing 40 photographs of Hong Kong and its environs including views of opium dens, a classroom scene, a group of plague inspectors posed on the street, fine street scenes, studio scenes of men eating, painting, and conducting business, a paddlewheeler, the Astor House, the Happy Valley Race Track, the railroad, the harbor and more. Albumen prints, 8 1/4x10 1/2 inches (20.9x26.7 cm.), mounted one per page recto and verso. Oblong folio, cloth, inexpertly backed. 1880s-90s