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A view showing a listing and partially submerged submarine lashed to two barges. Another submarine can be partially seen at the right of the slide. The exact nature of the incident is unknown.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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Half-plate (landscape format). [Cattle gathered in field with bungalows to the right and hills in the background].

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24 sheets.

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Album of albumen prints, by unknown photographers, with pencilled captions. The majority of the photographs show scenes in China, but there are also some of Hong Kong and, towards the end, Siam, though the different countries are intermixed.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of albums, containing captioned black and white photographs, taken by one, or more, people travelling in the same group. The albums form a photographic account of a six-month long touring holiday.Of the albums, the first ten are all of the same style and manufacture and each has an embossed title on the front. They follow the journey chronologically. The remaining two contain a smaller selection of images from the same journey, again in chronological order. They are...

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Landscape format. Near Queen's Statue: Hong Kong.

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Quarter-plate. Letting off big crackers, as before every Chinese house of importance. [Street scenes].

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Quarter-plate. Letting off big crackers, as before every Chinese house of importance. [Street scenes].

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Quarter-plate. Letting off big crackers, as before every Chinese house of importance. [Street scenes].

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[Showing back of policeman in corridor].

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[Blurred view of policeman].

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70 x 200 mm. View showing a large class of Chinese pupils seated at tables in the open air in front of the unidentified school buildings. These young girls appear to be engaged in some sort of sewing activity.

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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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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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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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].