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Quarter-plate (landscape format). (The man tried to escape the cameras, and all this batch of views were taken with right angle mirror, as with few exceptions the people do not like to be photographed).

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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Half-plate. [Showing rough ground with a tall tree beside the old wall with carving at the top].

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283 x 226 mill. View looking along the city walls towards the Five Storied Pagoda. Photographer unknown, possibly Dutton & Michaels.

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Quarter-plate.

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Quarter-plate. [Showing tramlines with scrubland on the left and right and a bridge in the distance].

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Landscape format. [Showing large packets or bales in the foreground with a few people standing about with wheelbarrows and a crowded street behind with tall buildings on the left].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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: 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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Half-plate. [Showing a path with ?shops along the right and two people carrying baskets on yokes in the distance ].

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'We occupied a small house on three sides of which Chinese houses came close up to our walls, and on the fourth side was the church' (1906 Report, p.2).

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'We occupied a small house on three sides of which Chinese houses came close up to our walls, and on the fourth side was the church' (1906 Report, p.2).

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). In distance Man Shan, the saddleback mountain: police station in middle distance with land office above it.

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Paintings created by Alfred Hugh Fisher for the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee. Fisher's titles and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate, but have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.

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75 x 14 mm. A view from Kowloon looking towards the Victoria waterfront with the Victoria Peak rising beyond.

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A view showing the Naval dockyard and breakwater, with the military hospital visible at the left on the hill behind Victoria.

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A view from Kowloon looking towards the Victoria waterfront. Prominent on the shoreline are the headquarters of Siemessen and Co (the second to the right of the large white buildings) the oldest German firm in the Colony, which started business in China in 1846. The building is situated near the junction of Wardley Street and Chater Road. St John's Cathedral can be seen behind the waterfront.

Scope and Contents 1064 x 215 mm. A panoramic view, composed of 4 joined prints, looking down from the Peak onto the city of Victoria, the harbour and the Kowloon Peninsula. At the extreme right of the picture are Causeway Bay and Kellet Island. The centre of the city can be seen in the second portion from the right: at the junction of Wardley Street and Chater Road is the canopy of the Queen Victoria Jubilee statue, with Queen’s Buildings on the left and the Hong Kong Club on the right. On the third side of...

Scope and Contents 2220 x 198 mm. A panoramic view, composed from 8 joined prints contained in boards with a leather titlepiece on the cover reading 'Shanghai Bund Tuck Tai Photographer'. The only identification given with the panorama is that of the Customs House in the fourth section. The view is taken from the south (Pootung) side of the river on the headland formed by the 90 degrees curve of the Whangpoo. The panorama embraces an angle of view of some 250 degrees and shows the following landmarks (from...

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841 x 193 mm (three prints joined). Panoramic view of the town of Wu-chen with the river in the foreground. Situated 120 miles west of Canton near the border between Kwangsi and Kwantung Provinces, the town lies on the West River at the mouth of the Kwei River. It was not opened for foreign trade until 1897. This print is reproduced in Clark Worswick, 'Imperial China, photographs 1850-1912' (Pennwick/Crown 1978) pp. 18-19

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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Manuscripts, typescripts, photocopies, newspaper cuttings, offprints and other material concerning Silow's work and reflections on China, with documents relating to the foundation of the Bertha St Aubyn Foundation.

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

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A view looking along a tree-shaded path; exact location unknown.