• Unknown (photographer)

View of Canton (now Guangzhou) with the former Factory site in the foreground and the Pearl River (also known as the Canton River, now also known as Zhujiang), in the background, China

between 1850 and 1890

Albumen silver print

comp.: 21.0 x 26.3 cm secondary support: 37.9 x 45.6 cm

PH1986:0542

• exterior view

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, l.r.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink [?], on the sheet, verso, u.l.: "3 H2[?]" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph] numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink [?], on the sheet, verso, u.r.: "39 0[?]"[seen in mirror image through recto of photograph] labelled, imprinted, numbered and inscribed - printed and inscribed by an unknown hand, in black ink, on a paper label attached to the secondary support, verso, u.l.: "No. [m 14B.] Slide No. / Donor / Locality [China / Canton.] / Subjects [Canton.] / Reference" [text in square parentheses indicates handwritten entries on printed form of label] stamped - in purple ink, on the secondary support, verso, c.l.: "Return to folio / CHINA 1" stamped, inscribed and numbered - stamped in purple ink and inscribed by an unknown hand in black ink, on the secondary support, verso, l.c.: "GARDNER COLLECTION OF / PHOTOGRAPHS / No. [1935] / Geol, Dept. Harvard University." [with an oval outline; text in square parentheses indicates a handwritten entry within stamped form] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, l.r.: "INV# 72173"

Pearl River; Guangzhou; Guangdong Sheng; China;

• architecture

• brickwork (masonry)
• river
• scaffolds
• skylights
• thatched canopies (structural elements)
• houses
• buildings
• ladders
• gables (architectural elements)
• roof-tops