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Quarter-plate. [Path with beeches on the left and trees showing large white building in the distance and three people in the foreground].

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A series of thirty-two photographs taken by Douglas Moore in 1949, depicting views and aspects of the lives and conditions of the inhabitants of Hong Kong. The photographs were printed and mounted for an exhibition at the North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the 1980s. The average size of each print (inner mount measurement) is 290 mm x 360 mm. The photographs are each individually captioned on the reverse and are accompanied by Mr Moore’s introductory caption for the exhibition:Hong...

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A view showing crowds of Chinese carrying banners and placards in the streets of Canton. A photograph presumably taken at Sun Yat Sen's first accession to power in China in 1911.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with limited, largely undated captions.

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267 x 200 mm. Showing a detachment of Indian and Chinese policemen on parade.

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Half-plate. [No print]. Missing.

Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints. The prints are mainly British official photographs representing aspects of development in the colonies and are chiefly 250 x 200 mm. Captions on the reverse, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The prints fall into subject collections.Nigeria: 1 - 8 Udi Village; 9-20 Ogwofia...

Scope and Contents A collection of photographs (various dates, sizes and photographers) and slides with a few leaflets, a file of correspondence, and some title cards as described below. The collection appears to have been assembled chiefly for publicity purposes and there is a file of correspondence requesting photographic and other material. Some of the photographs are mounted on cards for display, but the majority are loose prints stored in folders. There are also a few albums. The main subjects are the...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...

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Half-plate (landscape format). On either side are figures of two of Confucius chief disciples. On left Mencius and Tsengtzu: on right Szutu and Gentzu. Behind each of these pairs of disciples on right and left are shrines of lesser disciples not seen in picture.

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Half-plate. The four golden characters over the figure of Confucius mean : Among living mortals never has there been one like him. Above this (out of the picture) is another motto also in gold letters on a red ground meaning : Teacher and model for all ages. The tablet in front of the figure of Confucius reads: The shrine of the Perfect Sage and former teacher, Confucius. (Translations are by Sir J.S. Lockhart).

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). At back a Fransiscan Catholic mission. [Pony loaded with sticks and man standing in front of iron fence. The Japanese captured the Russians Naval base at Port Arthur in 1905].

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A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work, many dated 1937.

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Colour slide.

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Showing a Chinese boy sitting on a stool.

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193 x 157 mm. View looking along an unidentified street, with a Chinese procession in progress, presumably in celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887.

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A view showing junks on the river with mountains on the farther shore.

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A good head-on view of a junk on the Chu River.

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Group of five identified Chinese ladies.

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279 x 221 mm. Continuation of the view seen in Y3077C/36 and looking inland across a valley towards a Chinese village on the opposite hillside.

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284 x 220 mm. View looking across ploughed land from a hillside, with a settlement of houses and the sea at the right. With a group of uniformed German officers standing in the left foreground. The view appears to be looking back across the valley towards the point from which prints 36-37 were taken.

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284 x 212 mm. View looking across fields towards a village on the shore of Kiachow Bay. Precise location unidentified.

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279 x 221 mm. View from a rocky hillside looking down onto the foreign settlement of Tsintau on Kiachou Bay. The settlement itself is a neat rectangular group of shops and houses surrounded by a protective wall and ditch.