Details
Creator Gerlach & Fromhagen, photographer.
Title [Wu Ying Ding] [graphic] / Gerlach & Fromhagen, 1200 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Publisher Philadelphia
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 7 x 11 cm (2.5 x 4 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Bust-length portrait of Wu Ying Ding, attired in a tight-fitting cap and a shirt with a Mandarin collar and frog closures, facing slightly right. Hu Quang Yung exhibited a selection of his collection, including cloisonne, bronzes, and ceramics, at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Yung's nephew, Wu Ying Ding, attended the Centennial as an envoy with the objects.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from active dates of the photographer.
Manuscript note written on verso: To General Mrs. Basban, With best Compliments of Wu Ying Ding, Mandarin of China, N.Y., Feb. 17, 1877.
Text printed on verso: No. [996]. In ordering duplicates please send no. as above, and name.
Biographical / historical note Gustavus Gerlach and Gustavus Fromhagen were Philadelphia photographers who were in partnership from circa 1875 to 1878.
Subject Ding, Wu Ying -- Portraits.
Asians -- Portraits.
Chinese -- Clothing & dress.
Chinese -- Portraits.
Men -- Chinese.
AAPI.
Geographic subject China -- Officials and employees.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Cartes de visite -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits - sitter - Ding [P.9664]
Accession number P.9664