| Description | One album containing 119 photographs, mostly of Fuzhou (Foochow), China, and area, and some phoptographs taken in Shanghai and Singapore, c.1869-1870. The album is thought to have been compiled by John Gurney Fry (1838-1877), merchant, John Silverlock & Co., Fuzhou. The album includes fifty-five confirmed photographs by Lai Fong (Afong Studio) and twenty-one photographs known to be by John Thomson. Lai Fong and John Thomson are regarded as the best nineteenth century photographers in China.
The photographs in the John Gurney Fry Collection have been digitised. The digital images of Chinese subjects are on the Historical Photographs of China site - https://www.hpcbristol.net/collections/fry-29. Historical Photographs of China ref: Fr. |