China (nation)
Found in 782 Collections and/or Records:
Hong Kong - Governor's Ho;, [Victoria] Peak, 1908 - 1915
A view looking down on Government House from the Upper Albert Road with the Kowloon Peninsula visible in the distance.
Hong Kong - Governor's House, [Victoria] Peak, 1908 - 1915
A view showing a wing of Government House, partially obscured by trees.
Hong Kong: History
A collection of photographs, some of engravings.
Hong Kong: House on [Victoria] Peak, 1908 - 1915
A view showing a long narrow room furnished with chairs and potted plants.
Hong Kong Island from the Harbour, 1906 - 1930
Hong Kong Kowloon Peninsula, 1930
961 x 251 mm. A panoramic view of the Kowloon Peninsula taken from Hong Kong Island looking across Victoria Harbour by an unknown photographer. The Kowloon Canton railway terminus, clock-tower and Peninsula Hotel may be seen in the centre and a large ship with three funnels at anchor in the port to the left. Signal Hill may be seen to the right of the clock-tower. The Peninsula Hotel behind the clock-tower was opened in 1928.
Hong Kong - Mr Leefe's house, [Victoria] Peak, 1908 - 1915
A view showing an imposing residential house on Victoria Peak, probably that of L.N. Leefe who is recorded as an assistant at Jardine, Matheson and Co (see ?).
Hong Kong Street, 1907 - 1908
205 x 145 mm.
Hong Kong - [Victoria] Peak, 1908 - 1915
A view looking down from Victoria Peak with an unidentified large white house in the foreground.
Hong Kong - [Victoria] Peak, 1908 - 1915
A view looking over the flagstaff on Victoria Peak with Victoria and the Harbour in the distance below.
Hong Kong - [Victoria] Peak Barracks, 1908 - 1915
A view showing the large barracks on Victoria Peak, formerly a hotel but purchased by the Royal Artillery circa 1896.
Hong Kong - [Victoria] Peak Barracks, 1908 - 1915
A view showing the Victoria Peak Barracks.
Hong Kong - View from Peak, 1908 - 1915
A view from Mount Collinson looking over the south eastern section of Hong Kong Island and showing the Dragon's Back and Hok Tsui with Bluff Head in the distance. The large building at the right of the slide is unidentified.
[Hong Kong water front, c 1890], 1890
556 x 200 mm. (two prints joined) A panoramic view composed of two joined prints looking west along the Victoria waterfront from Murray Wharf. In the left foreground is the cricket pavilion, with the City Hall visible behind. In the middle of the right hand section is the Hong Kong Hotel, with the premises of Jardine, Matheson & Co. to the right.
Hong Kong's business section and Harbour with Kowloon beyond, 1909
A copy of a half-tone photograph looking down from Victoria Peak, over Victoria and towards Kowloon with the Naval dockyard visible at the right of the slide.
Hongkong [i.e. Hong Kong], Dec. 27.89, 7.30am, bright, F.32, 2 secs, 1889-12-27
From the sea.
Hosp. [i.e. Hospital] Preaching hall interior, May 20.97, 11.15am, F.32, 1 minute, 1897-05-20
Hospital Preaching hall, Chin Chew [Quanzhou ?], May 7.97, F. 32, 9am, counted 8, 1897-05-07
House on rock on Kulangsoo [south of Xiamen], Aug 22.96, 9.15am, F.32, 2 1/2 secs, 1896-08-22
Ice House Road, 1909
Quarter-plate. Close to Battery Path. [Showing open space in foreground with tree at near end of the road, with rickshaws].
Illustrations of China and its People
A volume measuring 36 x 48 cm containing plates with illustrations of various Chinese provinces, Hong Kong and Macao.
John Thomson (1837-1921) was a distinguished photographer and traveller, and this is volume I of his magnum opus, published in four volumes in 1873-74. It contains excellent Woodbury-type reproductions of his photographs taken in the early 1870s, and substantial notes on each illustration.
Imagining Hong Kong: historic photographs at the time of change
A study of aspects of Hong Kong's history, 1841-1997, 63 pages, illustrated with black and white and colour photocopies, submitted as a dissertation at Goldsmiths, University of London.
In Peking, 1880 - 1889
272 x 213 mm. View looking across gardens and an ornamental lake towards the tower of a temple.
In the Botanical Gardens, 1909
Quarter-plate. [Path with beeches on the left and trees showing large white building in the distance and three people in the foreground].