Original Hand Colored Albumen Photograph, Shanghai China "Junk", matted and shrink-wrapped with a label identifying the photographer as "W. Saunders", type of photograph as "Albumen" and area and date as "China, Shanghai, 1870". Visible height of art 6 3/8 inches (16 cm.) X visible width of art 8 1/4 inches (21 cm.).

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