[ATO PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION.]
Album of 100 gelatin silver prints of Fuzhou (Foochow) and Yunnan.
[1930s.]
Album, with 100 gelatin silver copy-prints, each c. 110 x 155 mm, on 50 black card mounts, each (but one) with a printed caption label (some on yellow paper); black stiff card covers; embossed triangular label of the Ato Photographic Association, 429/34 Woosung Rd., Shanghai, pasted to inside rear cover.
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Album of 100 gelatin silver prints of Fuzhou (Foochow) and Yunnan.
Includes panoramas of Fuzhou apparently taken at different dates (the captions state a population of variously 600,000 and 700,000), and scenes of Kunming, the capital of Yunan province. There is an interesting short series on railway engineering in Yunnan province, and images of zinc mining, and poppy cultivation: ‘the law forbids to grow poppies, but, provided the fines imposed be paid, any amount of poppies may be raised. In China, a fine is looked upon as only another name for tax … The opium products in Yunnan takes the first place in all China.’
