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Showing Dr David Grant and his hospital assistants. Dr David Grant was the first medical missionary and was single-handed for many years from his arrival in 1880. He was invalided in 1894, when Paton took over. His devotion to duty for fourteen years permanently impaired his health, and he died in Inverness in July 1907, Edward Band, ‘Working his purpose out: the history of the English Presbyterian Mission, 1847-1947' (London, 1948), pp. 136-7, 301, 304-5.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Ornate Chinese buildings in the foreground with simpler buildings in the far right].

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Open air theatre: Weihaiwei. [Open air theatre built on platform and with tiled roof over it with carved dragons. Players rather in the shade].

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A series of photographs of the Chinese University of Hong Kong which was established in 1963, embodying three post-secondary colleges.

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A series of photographs, some dated and some undated, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong which was established in 1963, embodying three post-secondary colleges.

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

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

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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

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Half-plate (landscape format). And suite on his official visit to the Commissioner. [Showing launch called 'Alexandra'].

Scope and Contents Collection of 35mm colour slides of countries of the Commonwealth. When the 'Commonwealth in Focus' exhibition was being prepared it was felt that the strong emphasis on the historical aspect, and the fact that the only section on the contemporary Commonwealth dealt with broad issues and organisations rather than individual countries, made some additional material on contemporary developments desirable. Accordingly it was decided to have a continuous slide projection of contemporary...

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Includes material on Universities throughout the Commonwealth of Nations.

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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.

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.

Scope and Contents A view looking east along Connaught Road with a statue of the Duke of Connaught in the foreground. The buildings have been identified as follows, from right to left: Hotel Mansions / Union Building [1905-1961]; St. George's Building (1st Generation) [1904-1966]; King's Building [1905-1958]; Queen's Building [1899-1961]; back left: Central Star Ferry Pier (2nd Location, Connaught Rd off Ice House St) [1912-1958]. The Central Star Ferry Pier was constructed between 1911-1912, hence the...

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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].