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Fourteen undated sketches depicting views of the University of Hong Kong, many of which have since disappeared under high-rise developments. Twelve of the sketches are incorporated into Christmas cards from F.S. and D.M. Drake. The sketches are presumably from Drake's time as Professor of Chinese. There is an accompanying letter from Bernard Drake to T.A. Barringer, R.C.S. Librarian, 7 December 1996.

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Landscape format. [Showing snow lion on terrace beside a building].

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Quarter-plate.

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265 x 211 mm. View from the North Soochow Road (probably from the vicinity of the General Hospital) looking eastwards along the Soochow Creek towards the small bridge which joins the Chapoo Road and the Soochow Road. At the right on the far side of the Creek is the spire of the Union Church (opened in 1866 and enlarged in 1901).

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Notes, newspaper cuttings and illustrations on the history of spectacles. Bell collected spectacles, including Joseph Chamberlain’s eyeglass, which was presented to him by Chamberlain’s widow after his death.

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A view showing the beached boat lying just offshore.

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A view showing the wrecked ferryboat lying near rocks off Ngong Shuen Chau (West of Kowloon). The slide is undated; the date is assumed as the ship was stranded after the typhoon which raged from 17 to 22 Aug. 1923 (source: Klaus Liphard, Gwulo).

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). The backs of the houses which face on to the main street. [Showing houses on stilts with boats at the waters edge].

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Half-plate (landscape format). [View down onto the harbour with boats in the bay]

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Where the British troops landed in 1839. [A distant view of the town with hills behind taken from a boat].

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View of the full-length statue of King George VI. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Commissioned in 1939 to be erected to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the colony, but, owing to the war it was not completed in bronze until September, 1946'.

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...

Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 4000-4145 (originally there were 142). Added numbers are: 4129A-D; not used: 4067-4069, 4072, 4078, 4084, 4110 and 4129; missing: 4090, 4096 and 4138. Subjects covered in the album are: 'Empress of China' at Woosung; Shanghai. Wei Hai Wei [now known as Weihai]: approach from the sea, view from Government House: Chinese guard; market and street scenes; Nan-Chu-Tao; Chang Fang; Fenglin; Linkungtau Island: distillery and...

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Landscape format. [Showing four arches and people crossing, either on horse-back or with a bicycle].

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Half-plate (landscape format). [Stream flowing down boulder strewn bed among trees with buildings in the distance].

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Half-plate (landscape format). [Showing stalls on either side].

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211 x 282 mm. View looking along a narrow commercial street in Canton hung with shopkeepers' banners. Precise location unknown, but possibly a view of Physic Street: compare with the collotype in John Thomson, 'Illustrations of China and its people' (Vol. I, 1873) plate 20. Photographer unknown, possibly Dutton & Michaels.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). On Chinese New Year's Day - note litter of crackers on the ground. [A quiet street scene with four storied houses].

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Quarter-plate.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing flights of steps leading to upper level of street beside solid stone houses on the right and trees and a hut on the right].

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

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194 x 139 mm. View looking along a crowded commercial street in Hong Kong.

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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Showing five Chinese men posed in front of a door.

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A view from the river showing business premises on the waterfront with moored boats in the foreground. The large Sun Building in the centre of the slide is presumably named after Sun Yat Sen.