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Landscape format. [Scene on the river].

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Landscape format. [Scene on the river].

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Landscape format. [Scene on the river].

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Note wheelbarrow men waiting. [Street scene].

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Landscape format.

Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 4477-4567 (originally there were 85). Added numbers are: 4541A and 4542A; not used: 4484, 4492, 4503, 4508, 4513, 4515, 4549 and 4550; missing: 4483, 4488, 4490, 4498, 4518, 4522, 4523, 4529, 4535, 4536 and 4542. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 4541A and 4542A follow 4520. Subjects covered in the album are: China: Canton; Hong Kong: general and harbour, Kowloon,...

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281 x 220 mm. View looking north along the Shanghai Bund from the bank of River Whangpoo. The clock tower of the Customs House can be seen above the trees lining the Bund in the left middleground.

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274 x 205 mm. View looking along the Bund, with the clock tower of the Customs House visible in the distance. The building in the immediate foreground is unidentified; the Shanghai Club is the next one along. All that can be seen of the building is the projecting central portion above the entrance, topped by a pediment.

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207 x 273 mm. View looking towards the east end of the Cathedral, with the tower and spire at the north east corner. Photograph by Sze Yuen Ming & Co.

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281 x 217 mm. View looking along the platform towards the brick built station, with passengers about to board a train. Although various railway schemes had been proposed from as far back as the 1860s, it was not until the end of 1895 that the Imperial authorities agreed to the building of a line between Shanghai and Soochow. The twelve miles from Shanghai to Woosung was opened for traffic in 1898.

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Landscape format.

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Landscape format. N.E. (i.e. north-east) promontory lighthouse : about 31 miles from Wei Hai Wei.

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Landscape format. N.E. (i.e. north-east) promontory lighthouse : about 31 miles from Wei Hai Wei.

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Landscape format. On the left note the docks of Butterfield and Swire: in the distance note Taimoshan mountains, which means big cloud or big hat mountain. Note lion rock: a railway tunnel has been begun under the left of this in the distance. [View down onto docks with misty distance].

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80 x 55 mm.

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Quarter-plate.

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). Port Edward: Wei hai Wei.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Port Edward: Wei hai Wei.

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Paton has annotated the image 'Inscription above was: [Chinese characters], èng, pit, kiû, iú, answered certainly pray have (Vide Douglas p.102)'.

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269 x 203 mm. View looking eastwards down onto the Hong Kong waterfront, Causeway Bay and the Happy Valley from the summit of the Peak, with the Signal Station in the foreground.

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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Showing five Chinese men sitting on chairs in front of a door.

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Landscape format. [Back view of statue on square with three storey buildings around].

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240 x 320 mm. A series of six drawing illustrating an English mercantile agent’s visit to China to taste, price and buy teas for the British market.