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Quarter-plate. Letting off big crackers, as before every Chinese house of importance. [Street scenes].

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Photographic copy of the front page of a Chinese newspaper or broadsheet. Although the nature of the text is unknown, the cartoons clearly imply an anti-western and anti-clerical bias.

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Photographic copy of the front page of a Chinese newspaper or broadsheet. Although the nature of the text is unknown, the cartoons clearly imply an anti-western and anti-clerical bias.

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Photographic copy of the front page of a Chinese newspaper or broadsheet. Although the nature of the text is unknown, the cartoons clearly imply an anti-western and anti-clerical bias.

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268 x 204 mm. View looking towards an unidentified pagoda at the summit of a hill, with a Chinese man seated on a wall in the foreground. The photograph is signed in the negative in Chinese script.

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[Showing back of policeman in corridor].

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[Blurred view of policeman].

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269 x 207 mm. View showing a small wooden fishing boat in the shallows of a river. The net is suspended over the bows of the boat on two curved roads.

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70 x 200 mm. View showing a large class of Chinese pupils seated at tables in the open air in front of the unidentified school buildings. These young girls appear to be engaged in some sort of sewing activity.

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179 x 227 mm. Full length portrait of a raggedly dressed street vendor, carrying a tattered umbrella and a basket of foodstuff.

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Showing Dr David Grant and his hospital assistants. Dr David Grant was the first medical missionary and was single-handed for many years from his arrival in 1880. He was invalided in 1894, when Paton took over. His devotion to duty for fourteen years permanently impaired his health, and he died in Inverness in July 1907, Edward Band, ‘Working his purpose out: the history of the English Presbyterian Mission, 1847-1947' (London, 1948), pp. 136-7, 301, 304-5.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Ornate Chinese buildings in the foreground with simpler buildings in the far right].

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Open air theatre: Weihaiwei. [Open air theatre built on platform and with tiled roof over it with carved dragons. Players rather in the shade].

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A series of photographs, some dated and some undated, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong which was established in 1963, embodying three post-secondary colleges.

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A series of photographs of the Chinese University of Hong Kong which was established in 1963, embodying three post-secondary colleges.

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

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

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

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

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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

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Half-plate (landscape format). And suite on his official visit to the Commissioner. [Showing launch called 'Alexandra'].

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Includes material on Universities throughout the Commonwealth of Nations. Many, though not all, of the slides were taken by Ian Maxwell.

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Includes material on Universities throughout the Commonwealth of Nations.