Singapore--August Sachtler & Co. (and others?)

38 albumen prints (from 200 x 264mm. to 255 x 357mm., or the reverse; one 58 x 90mm. showing the photographer?), on 26 card mounts, including two 2-part panoramas (see footnote), some with spotting in the image, some overall fading

cf. Toh, J. Singapore through 19th Century Photographs (Singapore, 2009)

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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A LARGE COLLECTION OF VIEWS AND PORTRAITS BY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHERS OF SINGAPORE, INCLUDING TWO PANORAMAS: Singapore from Pearl's Hill (1867), and Tanjong Paggar from Mount Palmer (1870s).

 "The earliest panorama of the Straits region was a view of Singapore in ten parts made in 1863 by Sachtler and Co. The firm also made one of the first published albums: Views and Types of Singapore. From 1864 the firm was run by August Sachtler and Danish born Kristen Feilberg (1838-1919), and they built an extensive stock of images from across the region including images from an expedition to Sarawak in 1864. Feilberg left the company to work on his own in 1867" (Hannavay, J. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, Routledge, 2007, p.1314).