Photographs

A good collection of ninety six original photographs (each approx. 9.5 x 12 cms.) of Hong Kong, Kowloon, the New Territories, Macau and Canton. A series of pictures, document the destruction by the typhoon of 1906 in Kowloon, Junks and sampans in Yamatee Bay (367), wreckage in police camber, so solid that you can walk about in it (363), sampans piled up in Yaumatee Bay (366), and a number of others. There is a good group of Chinese occupations including, a knife grinder a fortune teller and a barber. Other pictures include Kowloon walled city, temples in the New Territories and dragon boat racing in Aberdeen. Each of the photographs is numbered on the reverse. Mee Cheung was a commercial photographer who's company was active 1890s - c.1957 in Hong Kong. He advertised himself as a "High Class Photographer". He was known to have taken small snapshot format pictures. These were often views commissioned for documentary purposes.