Volume 2. Large album with 156 mounted photographs, each with and under mount, and a narrow border of brown or grey paper. All are gelatin silver prints, some toned sepia or dark green. (Oblong folio) 30.5x43.2 cm (12x17"), half brown morocco with gilt lettering.

A fascinating view of boat life in various Chinese harbors at the turn of the twentieth century. There are 50 photographs of the harbors of Hong Kong, 18 of Aberdeen (on the south side of the island of Hong Kong), 3 of Macao and 85 of Canton. Pictured are wooden boats transporting logs and bags of rice; houseboats; floating restaurants and larger boats serving as hotels; small scows, single sail junks, and large double masted boats. Some of the larger boats are ornately painted. Everywhere there is life: people working, eating, steering, hauling or moving furniture, laundry drying, overcrowded ferries, and always the thronged harbor. A beautiful example of an exotic subject seen through a pictorialist aesthetic.