Senior Assistant's drawing room, Lappa Customs Station, Macao

Title : Senior Assistant's drawing room, Lappa Customs Station, Macao

Topic : Chinese Maritime Customs Service

Location : Unknown

Date (start) : Thursday 22 November 1906

Nature : B&W Photo

Support image : Paper

Caption on support : Interior of my Drawing Room at Macao. [Undecipherable signature] 22/XI/06. Behind the curtain facing you look at the pictures in my dining room. Note the pictures of the Dowager Empress on the wall.

Information data : University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: he-s11. Photo from a folder of loose prints (UoB reference he-s) kept in the School of Oriental and African Studies Archives, London (SOAS reference PP MS 82/16). The photo is an interior shot of the drawing room of the Customs Assistants' quarters at Lappa. See also he01-209 (which is a duplicate print - but the loose print he-s11 is a better print). See also he01-208 and he-s10 (a slightly different view). Dowager Empress (Cixi; Tz'u-hsi; Tzu-hsi).

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