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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.

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Half-plate. [View down onto the market below in the shade of trees with tall buildings on either side].

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Quarter-plate.

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Quarter-plate.

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From top of City Wall : 8 of the 9 storeys are visible form here. The British Yamen is to the right beyond the two B.A. masts. [View over rooftops].

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Half-plate. [No print]. Missing.

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269 x 205 mm. View from above the Botanical Gardens looking northwards across the Harbour, with Causeway Bay in the right background. In the left middleground can be seen Government House and below it to the right, the tower of St John’s Cathedral.

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Landscape format. Formerly called the British Settlement.

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Half-plate. Women in foreground carrying pigs in baskets.

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270 x 204 mm. View looking along the street, with rickshaw drivers and shopkeepers posed in the foreground and the signs of lottery ticket sellers over the roadway beyond.

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Landscape format.

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Landscape format.

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Landscape format.

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Quarter-plate. [View from harbour wall to sailing boats and warship across to mountains on the mainland].

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287 x 233 mm. Showing an outcrop of rock in the form of a slender outstretched foot.

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...