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HENRY SCHUREN’S PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO
Will be opened on the first of October next, at the Hotel ‘d’Europe. The entrance from near the church is strictly private.
Ladies and Gentlemen wishing to have their portraits taken are respectfully requested to send their orders to the Hotel d’Europe, no. 45, in order to fix day and hour for the pose, as it is most inconvenient to a great many persons to have to wait upon others before posing. A private dressing room for ladies will be at disposal.
Speciality for reproductions and enlargements from old photos, Daguerreotypes, etc., etc., in crayons or water colours, guaranteed to be finished in the highest style of art.
Singapore, 19th September 1873.^[1]

NOTICE
H. SCHUREN, PHOTOGRAPHER, late of Messrs. WOODBURY AND PAGE, BATAVIA, begs to inform the public of Singapore that his ATELIER IS NOW OPEN, every morning (except Sundays) from 7 till 11 o’clock.
Having studied photography in the first ateliers of Brussels, Paris and London, Mr Schuren can guarantee that only really first class pictures will be delivered.
Speciality for REPRODUCTIONS of every kind of old pictures, drawings, statuettes, etc., etc. Large copies up to life size guaranteed to look like nature. Samples on view. Terms for taking private residences, groups, etc., etc., on application.
Mr Schuren employs quite a NEW PROCEDURE for fixing his pictures, which PREVENTS FADING THOROUGHLY. Apply, Hotel d’Europe No. 69. Views of Singapore. A large assortment of frames.
Singapore, 4th October, 1873.^[2]

FOR CHRISTMAS
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN wishing to send their photographs to Europe for Christmas, New Years, et., are kindly requested to apply at once Hotel d’Europe, No. 69, it being otherwise impossible to finish the pictures in time, as the work is daily increasing.
H. SCHUREN’S PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO,
OPEN EVERY DAY.
Singapore, 31st October 1873.^[3]

CHRISTMAS 1873.
THE FINEST PRESENT OF THE SEASON.
H. SCHUREN’S NEW SALOON PICTURE.
Is the most successful genre in photography. After several trials, MR SCHUREN has succeeded in producing photographs quite different from anything ever offered to the public in the East. For brilliance and finish, these pictures, which will be an additional ornament to every fashionable drawing room, will recommend themselves. Admirers of really good photographs are respectfully invited to visit H. SCHUREN’S Photographic Studio, Hotel d’Europe, Room 69, where samples of the new style of picture, taken here in Singapore, are on view.
Singapore, 9th Dec., 1873^[4]

1. Λ Singapore Daily Times, 19 September 1873. 
     
   
2. Λ Singapore Daily Times, 4 October 8173. 
     
   
3. Λ Singapore Daily Times, 31 October 1873. 
     
   
4. Λ Singapore Daily Times, 9 December 1873.