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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 306055, member: 33&quot;]The photos in the original post appear to be earlier than the photo that was found later and posted above. It&#039;s tricky to tell exact years because my knowledge of card mounts is mostly based on what was done in the U.S. Sometimes other countries differed. But I think the original photos posted could date from the late 19th century, and the later one that was found would be from early 20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve just spent some time looking for information on the history of Singapore photographers. This book was published in 2009:</p><p><font size="4">Jason Toh (author), <i>Singapore Through 19th Century Photographs </i>(Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, 2009) 176 p. </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p>A <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tap/7977573.0001.210/--jason-toh-singapore-through-19th-century-photographs?rgn=main;view=fulltext" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tap/7977573.0001.210/--jason-toh-singapore-through-19th-century-photographs?rgn=main;view=fulltext" rel="nofollow">review of the book here</a> indicates that it&#039;s about the scenic photography of the city of Singapore, and says that not much research has been done on portrait photographers of Singapore. I did find that some individual photographers and studios have been researched but didn&#039;t find anything about the Low Fong studio. Here is something I found about a different photographer, G. R. Lambert, who started his business in Singapore in 1867 and went into the 20th century. His work would have overlapped with the business of Low Fong. (Note, this link will open a PDF document): <a href="http://spm.org.sg/~/media/spm/documents/the%20originals%20of%20gr%20lambert.pdf?la=en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://spm.org.sg/~/media/spm/documents/the%20originals%20of%20gr%20lambert.pdf?la=en" rel="nofollow">http://spm.org.sg/~/media/spm/documents/the originals of gr lambert.pdf?la=en</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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