Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Photo Gallery
Foreign staff, Chinese Imperial
Maritime Customs, Tientsin, 1877 or 1878
Edmund (Odön) Faragó (Hungarian) seated, middle row, second from right
William Francis Stevenson (British) seated, middle row, far right
Hosea Ballou Morse (American) seated, front row, second from left
J H C Günther (German) seated, front row, third from left
Others likely to be in this
photo:
Commissioner Gustav Detring (German) possibly seated, middle row,
third from right,
Paul George von Möllendorff (German)
A. Mouillesaux de Bernières (French)
C.C. de Castro* (Portugese)
Is that Sir Robert Hart standing at the left? I would be grateful for your
comment.
* C. C. de Castro was the owner of a wonderful violin that attracted Sir Robert Hart's attention. De Castro, a musician, had won the violin in a wager with a ship's mate. Hart wrote "Inside it has an old label: Antonius Stradivarius Cremonens Faciebat anno 1709". Sir Robert acquired the "fiddle" giving de Castro his own violin and "some tens of dollars" for it. Hart wrote "I believe I have a real Stradivarius". (Hart's letter to James Duncan Campbell, 26 April 1873)
Tennis, Tientsin ~1883
William Francis Stevenson,
standing, second from left
Annie Alice Stevenson (née Frith), seated, second from right
American community, Shanghai? 1890s