Installation de télégraphie optique sur la mirador de Hong-Hoa

Installation de télégraphie optique sur la mirador de Hong-Hoa

Photograph

Charles-Édouard Hocquard

Maker
French, 1853–1911

Installation de télégraphie optique sur la mirador de Hong-Hoa

Optical telegraph installation on lookout tower of Hong-Hoa


From the album Le Tonkin [Première série]


1884–1885
Albumen silver print
Image: 8 11/16 × 6 1/2 in. (22 × 16.5 cm)
Mount: 13 13/16 × 10 11/16 in. (35.1 × 27.1 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1973.0221.0029
Inscriptions Printed in black ink, mount recto, TC: LE TONKIN
Printed in black ink, mount recto, BC: Installation de télégraphie optique sur la mirador de Hong-Hoa \ -39-
Printed in black ink, mount recto, BL: Déposé. - toute reproduction interdite)
Printed in black ink, mount recto, BR: Henry Gremnitz, Édr 15, rue de Laval, Paris.
[Line border with decorative corners printed in black ink on mount.]
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