Photographs--Pow Kee (and others?)

11 ALBUMEN PRINTS (average 215 x 270mm.), mounted on card, recto only, each captioned in Chinese in the negative, 7 dated (1888 or 1889), captioned in Chinese and English and signed in the negative by Pow Kee, mounts slightly bowed, light scattered spotting mostly to mounts

Bennett, T. History of Photography in China: Chinese Photographers 1844-1879 (Quaritch, 2013, pp.272 and 380)

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RARE PHOTOGRAPHS showing the 'Imperial Mausoleum', 'Camels at Ming Tomb', 'Ming Tomb', a view of Nanking, the Confucius Temple at Nanking, the historical Pingshi Street in Nanking, Nanking Gates, a view of the Qinhuai river that runs through Nanking, Wu-chao-men Park, Ming tombs, and the Jiangnan Examination Hall near the Confucius temple (this was the largest Imperial examination hall during the Ming and Qing dynasties).

Pow Kee (fl. 1870s-90s), was "an important commercial photographer known to have been operating a studio in Hankow (Hanjou) in the 1880s having previously worked in Canton (Guangzhou). From 1888 until sometime in the 1890s he operated in Nanking (Nanjing) and then in Shanghai" (Bennett).