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

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220 x 175 mm. View from the River Han looking towards the houses of Swatow on the bank. The town was opened to foreign trade by the Treaty of Tientsin in 1869, at the end of the Second China War.

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269 x 204 mm. View from a rocky hillside looking down onto a small bay on the bank of the River Han. A three storey verandahed house with terraced roof and a small formal garden fronts onto the water.

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226 x 181 mm. View looking along Swatow Bay with a small beach with jetty in the foreground, overlooked by a house.

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These notes chronicle Bell’s retirement in Cannes, his interests, social life and personal affairs, and his frequent travels, including an extensive tour of the Far East during 1925-26 to examine French and Dutch methods of colonial government (circa 80 sheets).

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

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80 x 55 mm.

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

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252 x 193 mm. View looking across a stretch of water (possibly the Soochow Creek) towards buildings raised on piles above the flow.

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...

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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288 x 214 mm. General view of unidentified temple buildings, with a large stone carving of a tortoise in an open-sided pavilion in the foreground.

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273 x 211 mm. View looking along an avenue between trees towards the entrance gateway of an unidentified temple.

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Half-plate (landscape format). [Showing steps up to Temple building from farm land in the foreground].

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50 x 50 mm.

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278 x 210 mm. View in a temple courtyard at Canton with a shrine in the foreground in the form of an open-sided pavilion.

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50 x 50 mm

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268 x 205 mm. View from the bank of the Yangtze River looking towards the monastery on Orphan Island, a sheer-sided outcrop in midstream.

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80 x 55 mm.

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View looking along the walls of Peking, with one of the massive corner bastions in the foreground. Captioned The first sight of Peking in Norman (1895, p. 196).

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Half-plate. Inside the B.N. Hospital, Weihaiwei. [Brick archway with creeper and chinese-style tiled roof looking along paved path to part of single storey building on the far side of the quadrangle].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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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Half-plate (landscape format). [Monument in centre of ornamental pond with plants, some in pots and a few people wandering past. Trees and buildings in the background].

Scope and Contents 281 x 192 mm. View looking across the River Whangpoo towards the Bund and the British Concession on the farther bank. The British section of Shanghai was in the centre or west district to the north of the city. It was bounded on the south by the French Concession and on the north by the Soochow Creek, beyond which was the American Concession. The section of the Bund seen here stretches from the Customs House (the twin-gabled building with central clocktower at the extreme left of the print)...