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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.

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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A view looking along the street with building work in progress at the right and a placard announcing the site of the new Asiatic Petroleum Company's offices in the background.

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A view looking east along Connaught Road with an unidentified statue of a soldier in the foreground.

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A view looking west along (?) Connaught Road with the British-American Tobacco Company's offices on the left and moored boats to the right.

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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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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Made of palm leaves. [Rather distant views of coolies pulling rickshaws, wearing their palm leaves raincoats].

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Half-plate (landscape format). In the foreground a group of stone tablets erected to the memory of widows who remained faithful to the memory of their first husband. [Showing carved tablets standing in front of trees with buildings behind].

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Landscape format.

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Landscape format. [Closer view].

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Landscape format. [Closer still].

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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269 x 210 mm. Printed from a cracked plate. View of the main façade of the Customs House on the Shanghai Bund. A red brick building, with details in ‘Tudor’ style, the Customs House consists of a central block with a square clock tower rising above the main entrance, flanked by two projecting wings terminating with gables. The building was completed in 1893.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Some people in white, others in the usual dark clothes].

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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Quarter-plate. British Concession, Canton. Coals to Newcastle : the diabolo being a very old Chinese game. [Showing European girl playing the game].

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This diary records Bell's social life, interests, personal affairs and travels. It describes the latter part of his extensive tour of the Far East during 1925-26 in greater detail than RCMS 36/2/4 (509 pages).

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Landscape format. Wei hai Wei. [Showing men using picks to cut chunks of ice from the frozen river].

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Landscape format. Wei hai Wei. [Showing men using picks to cut chunks of ice from the frozen river].

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Half-plate (landscape format). In interior of Territory, 14 miles from Port Edward. [Showing house built on terrace overlooking rather barren landscape, with pine trees behind and beyond].

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The Rev. Dr Carstairs Douglas was the dedicated leader of the missionary effort in Amoy from 1855 until his death from cholera in 1877. The Church, opened in 1880, was paid for from his estate on the initiative of his brother, Principal Douglas of the Free Church College, Glasgow, Edward Band, ‘Working his purpose out: the history of the English Presbyterian Mission, 1847-1947' (London, 1948), pp. 231-233).