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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [With sailing boats in centre foreground].

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150 x 200 mm.

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A copy of a half-tone photograph showing a tramcar ascending Victoria Peak on the steep track which runs from near St John's Cathedral up to the Peak Hotel. The line was opened in 1888.

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A view showing a lower section of the tramway with residential houses in the foreground.

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286 x 212 mm. View looking along the Pearl River towards a gorge. With sampans moored to the bank in the foreground.

Scope and Contents This file contains notes for a projected magazine article on the comparative history of kissing from ancient to modern times. Bell sent out questionnaires soliciting information on the subject, and the file contains answers from the Gold Coast Acting Secretary of Native Affairs; the Japanese Counsellor of the British Embassy; the British Legation, Nepal; the British Consulate, Iceland; the British Consulate, Seoul; a missionary to China; the British Legation, Abyssinia; the Governor,...

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264 x 105 mm. View looking north across the Happy Valley (or Wognei Chong Valley) which contains Hong Kong’s race course. Beyond the track on the left is Morrison Hill, with the Harbour beyond.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Tunnel 2200 yds long almost complete : view taken about 3 1/2 miles from Lok-lo-ha: railway will run from Kowloon to Canton.

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Half-plate (landscape format). [Surrounded by rolling hills].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). This island is united by a causeway with the mainland. [Saddleback in very misty background with boats on the water and on the foreground shore].

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Quarter-plate.

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Landscape format. [Showing uniformed men standing around outside tall buildings on the right].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). On way towards Lok-lo-ha road.

Scope and Contents 275 x 212 mm (mounted on card). A team photograph, mounted on card with identifications and scores in letterpress. Figures in the photograph are: J.A. Healing (Negri Sembilan); C. Glassford (Selangor); G.P. Stevens (Singapore); J.G. MacTaggart (Singapore); Frederic William Talbot (Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan) b. 1865, State Auditor of Negri Sembilan; Lieut. A.J. Woodroffe, R.E. (Singapore); Mr Justice Andrew John Leach (Singapore) b. 1851, Puisne Judge, Straits Settlements; Captain...

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277 x 215 mm (mounted on card)

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A copy of the half-tone photograph showing the west façade of the Law Courts from Chater Road.

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278 x 223 mm. View from a nearby hill looking down onto the Telegraph Station, with small terraced fields on the hillside in the foreground and the Pacific Ocean in the distance.

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275 x 216 mm. General view of the single storey Telegraph Station buildings at Sharp Peak near Foochow. The figures on the terrace of the building are too distant to be seen clearly, but A.S.H. is presumably the compiler of this album.

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271 x 204 mm. View looking along the body of the temples, with a row of bronze images on either side.

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View looking along the top of the city wall.

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'The trade routes of South China and their relation to the development of Hongkong', a paper read to the Royal Colonial Institute, 24 May 1898.

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There are 300 villages in the British territory. [Road with back views of laden people and mule].

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There are 300 villages in the British territory. [Mule working a millstone with woma looking on].

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There are 300 villages in the British territory. [Mule working a millstone with woma looking on].

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Landscape format. There are 300 villages in the British territory. [Stonwe houses of the village with hills in distance].