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Landscape format. Formerly called the British Settlement.

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Half-plate. Women in foreground carrying pigs in baskets.

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270 x 204 mm. View looking along the street, with rickshaw drivers and shopkeepers posed in the foreground and the signs of lottery ticket sellers over the roadway beyond.

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Landscape format.

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Landscape format.

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Landscape format.

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Quarter-plate. [View from harbour wall to sailing boats and warship across to mountains on the mainland].

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287 x 233 mm. Showing an outcrop of rock in the form of a slender outstretched foot.

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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Quarter-plate (landscape format). To the right note two old Chinese Wooden guns, captured from the Taku forts.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Island guard detachment. [Showing guards and dogs standing in the courtyard beside verandah where more guards are seated. A bell hangs from the eaves and potted plants stand on the verandah beside deep gutter].

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276 x 212 mm. View looking along the Nanking Road, a wide street lined with Chinese commercial premises.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). An old Chinese house.

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Quarter-plate. An old Chinese house. [Showing detail of steps up to the entrance with painted panels of Chinese design on either side of arch. Tiled roof with carved animals along corner ridge. Small group of Chinese in left hand corner].

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282 x 233 mm. View of the Nine-storied Pagoda at Canton, seen here in dilapidated condition

Scope and Contents View looking along rows of instruments in the Peking Observatory. Norman (1895, p. 203) provides this description: A walk of a mile along the top of the wall brings you to the famous Observatory, and the marvellous bronzes of the Jesuit Father Verbiest, who made and eerected them in 1668. Below the wall, in a shady garden, are the much older ones which Marco Polo saw, less accurate astronomically, but even more beautiful for their grace and delicacy, and linking ones imagination closely...

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Graves of British soldiers (1840) and wives of some of them.

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100 x 140 mm. Dr B.L. Paton is holding his youngest son, Henry Oldham Paton (born 20 August 1909); standing next to him is Mrs Janet Paton. In front are John McFie Paton (born 23 March 1907, died 1975) and Robert Lewis Paton, donor of this collection (born 25 September 1905).

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing sea and steamer with buildings along the seafront and the Peak in the mist behind].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [With sailing boats in centre foreground].

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150 x 200 mm.

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A copy of a half-tone photograph showing a tramcar ascending Victoria Peak on the steep track which runs from near St John's Cathedral up to the Peak Hotel. The line was opened in 1888.

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A view showing a lower section of the tramway with residential houses in the foreground.

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286 x 212 mm. View looking along the Pearl River towards a gorge. With sampans moored to the bank in the foreground.