Photographs

Artist / Author / Cartographer:

Unknown Photographer

Title:

Hong Kong Policeman with two prisoners

Date:

c1885

Medium:

albumen print

Size:

21.8 x 25.5 cm

Description:

Hong Kong policeman number 132 stands beside two villains who are each wearing a cangue around their necks. They are chained to a column which is inscribed with Chinese caligraphy. The picture was taken outside Watson's Pharmacy on the Queen's Road.

 

Verso numbered 617 in pencil.

References:

Item Code:

p6008

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