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Half-plate. [Showing a path with ?shops along the right and two people carrying baskets on yokes in the distance ].

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'We occupied a small house on three sides of which Chinese houses came close up to our walls, and on the fourth side was the church' (1906 Report, p.2).

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'We occupied a small house on three sides of which Chinese houses came close up to our walls, and on the fourth side was the church' (1906 Report, p.2).

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). In distance Man Shan, the saddleback mountain: police station in middle distance with land office above it.

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Paintings created by Alfred Hugh Fisher for the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee. Fisher's titles and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate, but have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.

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75 x 14 mm. A view from Kowloon looking towards the Victoria waterfront with the Victoria Peak rising beyond.

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A view showing the Naval dockyard and breakwater, with the military hospital visible at the left on the hill behind Victoria.

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A view from Kowloon looking towards the Victoria waterfront. Prominent on the shoreline are the headquarters of Siemessen and Co (the second to the right of the large white buildings) the oldest German firm in the Colony, which started business in China in 1846. The building is situated near the junction of Wardley Street and Chater Road. St John's Cathedral can be seen behind the waterfront.

Scope and Contents 1064 x 215 mm. A panoramic view, composed of 4 joined prints, looking down from the Peak onto the city of Victoria, the harbour and the Kowloon Peninsula. At the extreme right of the picture are Causeway Bay and Kellet Island. The centre of the city can be seen in the second portion from the right: at the junction of Wardley Street and Chater Road is the canopy of the Queen Victoria Jubilee statue, with Queen’s Buildings on the left and the Hong Kong Club on the right. On the third side of...

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841 x 193 mm (three prints joined). Panoramic view of the town of Wu-chen with the river in the foreground. Situated 120 miles west of Canton near the border between Kwangsi and Kwantung Provinces, the town lies on the West River at the mouth of the Kwei River. It was not opened for foreign trade until 1897. This print is reproduced in Clark Worswick, 'Imperial China, photographs 1850-1912' (Pennwick/Crown 1978) pp. 18-19

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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Manuscripts, typescripts, photocopies, newspaper cuttings, offprints and other material concerning Silow's work and reflections on China, with documents relating to the foundation of the Bertha St Aubyn Foundation.

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

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A view looking along a tree-shaded path; exact location unknown.

Scope and Contents 953 x 255 mm. A panoramic view of the Pearl River entering Canton (Guangzhou), by an unknown photographer. Taken on the outer bank of a busy bend in the river and looking across to a customs building, where orderly lines of crates can be seen on the quayside and numerous small boats are tied up. Behind the customs house is a four-storey building with a clock-tower. There is a park/area of trees to the left of the customs building, with a perimeter road running beside the river. To the right...

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269 x 213 mm. View looking along a street in the Chinese city from the wall.

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271 x 211 mm. View looking along an unidentified street of Chinese houses.

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281 x 219 mm. View looking along an unidentified street in Peking, with passers-by watching the photographer.

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271 x 207 mm. View looking over the rooftops of Peking, with an open market in the left 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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'Presented to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in memory of his visit to Benares'.

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Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Outside the East Gate of Wei Hai Wei City.

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Landscape format. Hong Kong. The Hygeia, Hospital Ships, and shore Plague Hospital. [A misty scene across the water].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Wei hai wei. Repairing a junk: and some of the market day mules and donkeys.