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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.

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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.