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Inter-University Council Slides
Jardine Matheson Archive
John Scarth: Letters
Typescript and manuscript letters, mainly from China.
Joseph Needham papers
Lady Edith Blake: Journal of journey in China, Korea and Japan
Typescript.
Letters of Hugh Drummond Pearson
Log of the 'Houghton'
'The log book of Capt. John Edwards, R.N. Given to Robert Stafford Edwards by his Aunt Miss Jane Edwards 1880. Solihull. Warwickshire.'
Maurice Ingram, diplomat: Personal correspondence and papers
Miscellaneous views of Hong Kong, 1900s-1920s
Modern Commonwealth photograph collection
Newscuttings on Jamaica and Hong Kong
Newscuttings relating to O'Malley's period as Attorney-General in Jamaica, 1876-1879, and Hong Kong, 1884-1886, 232 pages.
Panoramic view of the Shanghai Bund, 1898
Papers concerning General Charles George Gordon
Photographic panoramas of Hong Kong, Canton, and Macau
Six of the panoramas are of Hong Kong, one of Canton, and one of Macau. The provenance of the panoramas is unknown, but they arrived in Cambridge University Library in 1993 as part of the Royal Commonwealth Society’s photographic collection.
Photographs of North Africa and Asia
A large album of albumen prints. The prints are of various sizes and by various photographers. The compiler of the album is not known. Captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.
Photographs of Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Pacific Islands, the United States and Africa
Photographs: the Siege in Peking [i.e. Beijing] 1900
Portrait of Sir Frederick Lugard as Governor of Hong Kong
105 x 195 cms on mount in frame 215 x 310 cms. Frederick John Dealtry Lugard (1858-1945), created Baron Lugard of Abinger in 1928, is associated chiefly with Africa, but was Governor of Hong Kong from 1907 to 1912. He was chiefly responsible for the creation of the University of Hong Kong in 1911. This full-length portrait of him in Governor's full-dress uniform is signed at the bottom.
Shanghai Racecourse, circa 1870
Albumen prints mounted on card and measuring approximately 275 x 200 mm. Photographer unknown.
Sir Henry Norman Far East collection
Original glass negatives measuring 164 x 122 mm by Sir Henry Norman. Some of the negatives are accompanied by handwritten captions. Views shown are of French Indo-China [Vietnam], China, Malaya [Malaysia], Siam [Thailand], Korea and Japan.
Stella Benson: Diaries and Poems
Diaries, poems and juvenilia
Thomas Francis Wade: Notes
Includes notes on Tibet, Chinese history and geography and the opium trade.
Three months in Thibet [Tibet]
A diary of Lovett's time on leave in Tibet, 83 pages.
Under many flags: my pilgrimage
An account of a journey undertook in 1953-1954 to Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, Manila, North Borneo, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and the U.S.A. The volumes are undated, but the last entry in the epilogue is dated 1957.
Views in Australia, Egypt, Aden, Asia and other places chiefly circa 1908-1915
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