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Albumen prints mounted on card and measuring approximately 275 x 200 mm. Photographer unknown.

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281 x 217 mm. View looking along the platform towards the brick built station, with passengers about to board a train. Although various railway schemes had been proposed from as far back as the 1860s, it was not until the end of 1895 that the Imperial authorities agreed to the building of a line between Shanghai and Soochow. The twelve miles from Shanghai to Woosung was opened for traffic in 1898.

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Landscape format.

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Landscape format. N.E. (i.e. north-east) promontory lighthouse : about 31 miles from Wei Hai Wei.

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Landscape format. N.E. (i.e. north-east) promontory lighthouse : about 31 miles from Wei Hai Wei.

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Landscape format. On the left note the docks of Butterfield and Swire: in the distance note Taimoshan mountains, which means big cloud or big hat mountain. Note lion rock: a railway tunnel has been begun under the left of this in the distance. [View down onto docks with misty distance].

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80 x 55 mm.

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Quarter-plate.

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 (landscape format). Port Edward: Wei hai Wei.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Port Edward: Wei hai Wei.

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Paton has annotated the image 'Inscription above was: [Chinese characters], èng, pit, kiû, iú, answered certainly pray have (Vide Douglas p.102)'.

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269 x 203 mm. View looking eastwards down onto the Hong Kong waterfront, Causeway Bay and the Happy Valley from the summit of the Peak, with the Signal Station in the foreground.

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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Showing five Chinese men sitting on chairs in front of a door.

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Landscape format. [Back view of statue on square with three storey buildings around].

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240 x 320 mm. A series of six drawing illustrating an English mercantile agent’s visit to China to taste, price and buy teas for the British market.

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Fourteen undated sketches depicting views of the University of Hong Kong, many of which have since disappeared under high-rise developments. Twelve of the sketches are incorporated into Christmas cards from F.S. and D.M. Drake. The sketches are presumably from Drake's time as Professor of Chinese. There is an accompanying letter from Bernard Drake to T.A. Barringer, R.C.S. Librarian, 7 December 1996.

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Landscape format. [Showing snow lion on terrace beside a building].

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Quarter-plate.

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265 x 211 mm. View from the North Soochow Road (probably from the vicinity of the General Hospital) looking eastwards along the Soochow Creek towards the small bridge which joins the Chapoo Road and the Soochow Road. At the right on the far side of the Creek is the spire of the Union Church (opened in 1866 and enlarged in 1901).

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Notes, newspaper cuttings and illustrations on the history of spectacles. Bell collected spectacles, including Joseph Chamberlain’s eyeglass, which was presented to him by Chamberlain’s widow after his death.

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A view showing the beached boat lying just offshore.

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A view showing the wrecked ferryboat lying near rocks off Ngong Shuen Chau (West of Kowloon). The slide is undated; the date is assumed as the ship was stranded after the typhoon which raged from 17 to 22 Aug. 1923 (source: Klaus Liphard, Gwulo).