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274 x 215 mm. View looking north along the Shanghai Bund, with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in the left foreground and the Customs House immediately beyond.

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[A misty scene with long shadows of bare trees on the pavement].

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Landscape format.

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201 x 269 mm. View looking up the cable tramway which runs from the top of the Peak down into the eastern section of Victoria. The Hong Kong High-Level Tramway Company was incorporated in 1885 and trams started running from 1888. The great rain storm of the following year did great damage and nearly put the company out of business and in 1891 it was taken over by John D. Humphreys & Company.

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240 x 181 mm. View looking across the River, with a fleet of junks in midstream.

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Quarter-plate.

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281 x 218 mm. View looking towards the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity from the corner of Kiangse and Hankow Roads (the edge of the building seen at the left is part of the Municipal Council Offices). The view shows the east end of the Cathedral. The Cathedral, designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, was erected with some modifications to his original plan (the chancel, for example, was shortened) in 1866-69. The spire, however, was not completed until 1892.

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275 x 216 mm. View of the east façade of the Cathedral from Kiangse Road, with the tower and spire at the right. A small part of the Kiukiang Road can be seen at the right of the print. See also Y3077C/25.

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A copy of a half-tone photograph showing the Cenotaph Statue in Statue Square with the Queen's statue and Siemessen and Co.'s headquarters in the background.

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Quarter-plate. [Showing rickshaws parked outside a three storey building].

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233 x 241 mm. View of one of the images in the temple, a bronze figure of a jovial man with children on his lap and shoulders.

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272 x 216 mm. General view of the club building at Foochow, a two storey house with wide verandahs. A.S.H. is one of the figures standing on the open first floor balcony over the main entrance.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). And Headman of village wih his grandchildren.

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Half-plate. Pears and apple grown in Gov. House garden, Weihaiwei, one of the pears photographed weighs a pound. [Showing young girl dressed in black and wearing a boater with ribbon saying: King Alfred, round it, sitting on a cannon on the corner of the verandah with garden and hills in the background. The Commissioners was Sir James Stewart Lockhart (1858-1937].

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Half-plate. [Showing girl sitting in an ornately carved chinese armchair inside a house with a bonsai plant in a pot on the table beside her].

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[A brick building with clock tower].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Hospital wall on the left: Linkungtau Island, Weihaiwei.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing path crossing a river by bridge leading up to village on right with trees on the left].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing path near sone wall with side view of covered arch showing tiles and a carved animal at each corner of roof. Chinese manin cloak approaches the arch with wester lady in long black dress and white hat, some way behid to the right].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [2? Grave stones, one with Chinese writing, the other patterned marble, with trees hiding buildings behind and Chinese man and western lady seen in previous picture standing in the back right].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Indistinct view of millstone with thatched roofs behind and hills in the distance].

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A copy of a half-tone photograph showing the large liner berthed at Kowloon, with a row of taxi-cabs in the foreground.

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[No print]. Missing.

Scope and Contents View looking along the path running between the two rows of small stone huts used for examinations. Norman (1895, p. 203) provides this description. The Government of China is a vast system of competitive examination tempered by bribery, and this Kao Chang is its focus. It is a miniature city, with one wide artery down the middle, hundreds of parallel streets running from this on both sides, each street mathematically subdivided into houses, a big semblance of a palace at one end of the...

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292 x 203 mm. View looking down an aisle with rows of sculptured images on either side.