Wealthy Merchants in Hankou (ca. 1900)
Another group portrait from the same provenance as the previous shot, but definitely older.
European merchants with their chinese compradors. A comprador was a native-born contract supplier who worked for foreign companies in China and certain other Asian countries.
I think the sequence is wrong (since compradors must have been chinese), but on the backside is written:
Standing from left to right: Shipping clerk - Shroff (?) - Pearce – Shipping Comprador - General Comprador - Arms Comprador - Behmez (?)
Sitting from left to right: Sievers - Carter - Mander
(?)=undecipherable
Wealthy Merchants in Hankou (ca. 1900)
Another group portrait from the same provenance as the previous shot, but definitely older.
European merchants with their chinese compradors. A comprador was a native-born contract supplier who worked for foreign companies in China and certain other Asian countries.
I think the sequence is wrong (since compradors must have been chinese), but on the backside is written:
Standing from left to right: Shipping clerk - Shroff (?) - Pearce – Shipping Comprador - General Comprador - Arms Comprador - Behmez (?)
Sitting from left to right: Sievers - Carter - Mander
(?)=undecipherable