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This group of 22 albumen prints of China includes nine images from Shanghai, four from Hankou, three from Tianjin, two from Guangzhou, two from Hong Kong, and one each from Anting, Ningbo, Xiamen, Beijing, and Nanjing. Included are photographs made by British military personnel and other European photographers, as well as Chinese photographers and studios. Several of the photographs capture aspects of the European presence in China in the nineteenth century

This group of 22 albumen prints of China includes nine images from Shanghai, four from Hankou, three from Tianjin, two from Guangzhou, two from Hong Kong, and one each from Anting, Ningbo, Xiamen, Beijing, and Nanjing. Included are photographs made by British military personnel and other European photographers, as well as Chinese photographers and studios. Photographers include Paul Champion, St. Julian Hugh Edwards, Lai Fong, Liang Shitai, Kung Tai, Pow Kee Studio, and Major James Crombie Watson.

The twelve-part panorama, photographed by Kung Tai and mounted in an accordion-style album, depicts the Shanghai Bund, the city's international financial and commercial center that runs along the west side of the Huangpu River. Taken from the east side of the river, the port's commercial activity is signalled by the large number of ships, both docked and mid-river, beyond which the buildings of the Bund lie. The spires of a western church in the International Settlement are visible beyond the steamship I-Chang in the third photograph. The final two photographs of the panorama include views of the buildings in the Pudong area of Shanghai on the eastern side of the river