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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)...

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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].