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China (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 785 Collections and/or Records:

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[Hong Kong], 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302K/133
Scope and Contents

130 x 80 mm. postcard.

Dates: 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-Series

Hong Kong, 1946 - 1991

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK/34-84
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs of universities in Hong Kong.

Dates: 1946 - 1991
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-Series

Hong Kong, 1946 - 1986

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/2 HK
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs of Universities in Hong Kong.

Dates: 1946 - 1986
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/195
Scope and Contents

A view looking along a street in Victoria (?Wardley Street) with carts and rickshaws in the roadway.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/196
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A view along Ice House Lane, off Queen's Road, Victoria, with a row of sedan chairs parked at the right of the street. At the end of the lane can be seen the studio of Mee Cheung, a Chinese commercial photographer who advertises his premises in the 'Directory and Chronicle for China' (1901 ed) as being located at 'Top floor of Ice House'.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/197
Scope and Contents

A rather blurred view showing four Chinese carrying two sedan chairs.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/199
Scope and Contents

An unidentified street scene in Hong Kong with sedan chairs and pedestrians in the foreground. The shop signs include those of two photographers, Tai Woo and Hung Choung.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4456
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. [No print]. Missing.

Dates: 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/171
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A view showing the front façade of the bank, from Queen's Road, with a fountain in the foreground.

Dates: 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

'Hong Kong as seen from the anchorage'. Drawn by Lieutenant L.G. Heath of HMS Iris (1846)

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 385
Scope and Contents London: published according to Act of Parliament at the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty, May 4th 1847Commander (later Captain Sir Edward) Belcher of HMS Sulphur carried out a hydrographic survey of Hong Kong Island in 1841, and it was printed as Chart 1466 on 1 May 1843. Three engravings based upon Lieutenant L.G. Heath’s drawings were prepared by the Hydrographic Office to complement Belcher’s chart, and were published in 1847 as a three part panorama, measuring 127 x 2310 mm....
Dates: 1847 - 1991
Conditions Governing Access: Stored in the RCS Plan Chest.
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Hong Kong - Canton [i.e. Chu] River, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/203
Scope and Contents

A view showing a houseboat on the Chu River.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong - Canton [i.e. Chu] River, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/204
Scope and Contents

A view showing a crowded settlement of warehouses and huts on the bank of the Chu River.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong - Canton [i.e. Chu] River, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/205
Scope and Contents

A view along the river bank.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong - Canton [i.e. Chu] River, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/207
Scope and Contents

A view showing three-masted junks on the Chu River, a good composition spoiled through lack of tonal contrast.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong - Canton [i.e. Chu] River, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/208
Scope and Contents

A rear-view of a junk on the Chu River, with a village on the bank in the background.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong - Canton [i.e. Chu] River, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/209
Scope and Contents

A murky view showing two junks, possibly transporting a large raft of timber down river.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong - Canton [i.e. Chu] River Boat, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/210
Scope and Contents

A view showing a river boat of the Sun Ning Railway Co at a jetty on the Chu River.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong, China and Japan, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/183-249
Scope and Contents

Slides 237-244 are copies of prints by Hiroshige.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong - Entrance, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/160
Scope and Contents

A view showing two junks off Hong Kong.

Dates: 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong - Flower Mkt, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/198
Scope and Contents

A view looking along tree-shaded Wyndham Street (off Queen's Road), with flower sellers on the pavement.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong from the Bay. The Peak, 1870 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/77
Scope and Contents

288 x 202 mm. View from the harbour looking towards the waterfront of the city of Victoria, with the Peak in the background.

Dates: 1870 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong from [Victoria] Peak, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/184
Scope and Contents

A view from Victoria Peak looking down on Victoria and the Harbour and across to Kowloon.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong from [Victoria] Peak, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/187
Scope and Contents

A view looking down on the city and Harbour of Victoria and showing the Albany Filter Beds (at right of slide), MacDonnell Road (below the filter beds) and the breakwater of the Naval Dockyard. A photograph taken from near the Peak Road.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong from [Victoria] Peak, 1908 - 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/188
Scope and Contents

A view looking down on Victoria from Victoria Peak with the Harbour and Kowloon beyond.

Dates: 1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hong Kong from Victoria Peak, c. 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30383A/3
Scope and Contents 1086 x 212 mm. Originally a four-part panorama of Hong Kong from Victoria Peak showing the city of Victoria below, the harbour and Kowloon Peninsula across the water. Stone Cutter’s Island can be seen on the left. The photograph shows grand European style buildings with spacious grounds and a waterworks on the lower slopes of Victoria Peak. St John's Cathedral can be seen below the Peak, slightly to the right of centre, and the Queen's Building, completed in 1899 (and demolished in 1961),...
Dates: c. 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).