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DUTTON & MICHAELS AND OTHER PHOTOGRAPHERS
Canton: [The Waterfront]; 'Five Story Pagoda'; 'North Gate Pagoda'; 'In 1863 Sylvester Dutton [a San Francisco photographer, born Maine,
'Canton Pagoda 2800 years old [Flower Pagoda]'; 'Cemetery c.1825] and a certain Michaels (possibly Vince Michaels) were partners in
Whampoa'; and 'Monastery White Cloud Mts' the frm of Dutton and Michaels in Canton. Subsequently Dutton opened
all signed 'Dutton & Michaels', titled, and three dated '1863' in the plates a gallery on his own in Honam from 1864 to 1866. On December 1864, for
albumen silver prints example, he advertised that his gallery, "two doors down from Augustine
10√ x 15√in. (27.6 x 40.3cm.) and smaller Heard & Co.'s" featured a supply of "Panoramic, and single views of Canton,
unframed Whampoa and Macao."' (P.E. Palmquist and T.R. Kailbourn, Pioneer
with nine other albumen prints including studio portraits and landscapes (15)
Photographers of the far west: a biographical dictionary, 1840-1865, Stanford,
£3,000-5,000 US$3,800-6,200 2000, pp.211-12).
€3,400-5,700