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Quarter-plate (landscape format). The backs of the houses which face on to the main street. [Showing houses on stilts with boats at the waters edge].

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Half-plate (landscape format). [View down onto the harbour with boats in the bay]

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Where the British troops landed in 1839. [A distant view of the town with hills behind taken from a boat].

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View of the full-length statue of King George VI. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Commissioned in 1939 to be erected to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the colony, but, owing to the war it was not completed in bronze until September, 1946'.

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...

Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 4000-4145 (originally there were 142). Added numbers are: 4129A-D; not used: 4067-4069, 4072, 4078, 4084, 4110 and 4129; missing: 4090, 4096 and 4138. Subjects covered in the album are: 'Empress of China' at Woosung; Shanghai. Wei Hai Wei [now known as Weihai]: approach from the sea, view from Government House: Chinese guard; market and street scenes; Nan-Chu-Tao; Chang Fang; Fenglin; Linkungtau Island: distillery and...

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Landscape format. [Showing four arches and people crossing, either on horse-back or with a bicycle].

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Half-plate (landscape format). [Stream flowing down boulder strewn bed among trees with buildings in the distance].

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Half-plate (landscape format). [Showing stalls on either side].

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211 x 282 mm. View looking along a narrow commercial street in Canton hung with shopkeepers' banners. Precise location unknown, but possibly a view of Physic Street: compare with the collotype in John Thomson, 'Illustrations of China and its people' (Vol. I, 1873) plate 20. Photographer unknown, possibly Dutton & Michaels.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). On Chinese New Year's Day - note litter of crackers on the ground. [A quiet street scene with four storied houses].

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Quarter-plate.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing flights of steps leading to upper level of street beside solid stone houses on the right and trees and a hut on the right].

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

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194 x 139 mm. View looking along a crowded commercial street in Hong Kong.

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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Showing five Chinese men posed in front of a door.

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A view from the river showing business premises on the waterfront with moored boats in the foreground. The large Sun Building in the centre of the slide is presumably named after Sun Yat Sen.

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A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work, many dated 1937.

Scope and Contents Memoranda on subjects including: historical briefing for the British trade delegation to Honolulu [Hawaii, United States], 1927, on trading relations with China; France's request for British help in the case of future German aggression, 1906, the visits to Berlin by 1st Lord Haldane [Secretary of State for War], in 1906 and 1912; an interview with Haldane, November 1916, about preparations for war in 1911 and his visits to Berlin; an interview with Sir Maurice de Bunsen [former British...

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220 x 175 mm. View from the River Han looking towards the houses of Swatow on the bank. The town was opened to foreign trade by the Treaty of Tientsin in 1869, at the end of the Second China War.

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269 x 204 mm. View from a rocky hillside looking down onto a small bay on the bank of the River Han. A three storey verandahed house with terraced roof and a small formal garden fronts onto the water.

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226 x 181 mm. View looking along Swatow Bay with a small beach with jetty in the foreground, overlooked by a house.

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These notes chronicle Bell’s retirement in Cannes, his interests, social life and personal affairs, and his frequent travels, including an extensive tour of the Far East during 1925-26 to examine French and Dutch methods of colonial government (circa 80 sheets).

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A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work, many dated 1937.