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Hartung's Photo Shop, a German firm based in Peking, was one of the leading establishments for studio portraits and images of Beijing. An originally German woman, Hedda Harrison Morrison, worked there for many years as a photographer.

The Librairie Francaise, a library and a publishing house established by Henry Coston also supplied postcard images of China among major enterprises like its "Documents and Testimony" and the monthly magazine “French Readings.” As with a number of early postcards, paintings like those of Beijing in 1898 by C. Wink made for some of the most beautiful early imagery.

Major Chinese publishers were of course based in Hong Kong, like Lau Ping Kee. Some postcards were made by Chinese immigrants abroad. The individual portraits where the different colors and parts of a person are assembled from hand-cut stamps, for example, were actually made by Chinese immigrant workers in the US. This unusual form of postcard manufacture is unique to Chinese-made postcards a century ago.

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