Therefore, I thought it might be fun to create my own photo album of such a subject, using the new USN figures from K&C and pieces from the Streets of Old Hong Kong Series. I will be posting examples from this "album" on this thread.
The album in question was created by an American sailor stationed in Hong Kong as part of the Yangtze Patrol from the late 1920s into the 1930s. The photos in the album, which is now part of the historic photography collections of George Eastman House in Rochester, NY were taken by a Chinese photographer whose studio was located near the naval garrison in Hong Kong. In the early 1920s, the garrison had housed the Royal Navy, who when they moved to larger quarters turned it over to the U.S, who had established the South China and Yangtze Patrols in 1919 in Shanghai and Hong Kong respectively.
We know very little about the Chinese photographer except that his name was Yuming, that he worked in Hong Kong, and that his U. S. Navy photographs were taken in the years between the two world wars.
Here is the only known photograph we have of Yuming (likely taken by an assistant)
