Title
Photograph album compiled by crewmember of the SMS Tsingtau
Year/Period
around 1905
Region
China
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 27.0 x 36.5 x 4.5 cm
Accession No.
2014-00939
Collection of
This gilded half-leather album contains 131 silver gelatin prints mostly taken and compiled by a crew member of the SMS Tsingtau, a German ship which operated between Hong Kong, Macau; and the rivers around Chiuchow, Wuzhou, Nanning and Longzhou. They depict life onboard the ship, group portraits of the crew with local Chinese people; and important landmarks and scenes in China.
