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350 x 250 mm.

Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 4477-4567 (originally there were 85). Added numbers are: 4541A and 4542A; not used: 4484, 4492, 4503, 4508, 4513, 4515, 4549 and 4550; missing: 4483, 4488, 4490, 4498, 4518, 4522, 4523, 4529, 4535, 4536 and 4542. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 4541A and 4542A follow 4520. Subjects covered in the album are: China: Canton; Hong Kong: general and harbour, Kowloon,...

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Erected upon the site of new buildings before beginning construction. [Pile of poles and rubble beside the building site].

Scope and Contents Album with panel on cover with title, originally containing 20 photographs of ten libraries but with 7 missing. The following list of libraries represented gives the number of photographs now in the album, with the original number in brackets:Hong Kong 1 (2)Khartoum 1 (2)Malaya (Singapore) 2 (2)Malaya (Kuala Lumpur) 2 (2)Ghana 0 (2)Ibadan 1 (2)Makerere 0 (2)Rhodesia and Nyasaland 2 (2)West Indies 2...

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Half-plate (landscape format). [View down to part of Cathedral with harbour and hills in the background].

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Landscape format. [A closer view].

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Landscape format. [Probabaly Stanley, refer to 4442, but a more distant view].

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Landscape format. [General view of Stanley from above the cemetery]

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Half-plate (landscape format). [A still broad stream with trees around, reflected in the water].

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Half-plate (landscape format). [Same view with cow being led to drink at the far side].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Hong Kong Island.

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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Landscape format. In foreground note timbers for making masts. [A misty scene].

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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].

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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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.

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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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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).

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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...

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