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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Letters written by Fisher to Halford Mackinder describing his travels (circa 2,000 pages).

Content Description Diary written in the Argyle Street Camp, a Japanese internment camp for officers in Kowloon, Hong Kong, during the Second World War, covering the period 1942-1945. Comprises diary pages written in pencil; section 1 covering 1 Jan. 1942 - 31 Mar. 1942; section 2 covering 1 Apr. 1942 - 31 Jul. 1942; section 3 covering 1 Aug. 1942 - 9 July 1943; section 4 covering 25 Nov. 1943 - end of Feb. 1944; section 5 covering Mar. 1944 - Sept. 1945. Together with a typed transcription of the diary,...

Scope and Contents 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 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. [Showing the ferry pier and large stone building behind]

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Quarter-plate. [No print]. Missing.

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Includes material on the IUC as a whole together with a few items on British Universities.

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Landscape format. In foreground is the site of the Old British Cantonment of 1839: note Chinese Temple across the bay. [A misty distance].

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A collection of loose prints, mostly measuring approximately 190 x 140 mm, with typewritten captions pasted to the reverse. The collection contains general views of landscape and architecture in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Brunei and Borneo.

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Half-plate. [A jungly picture with steep path to the left on which are two rickshaws being pulled/pushed by two natives each one carrying a woman up and the other a bowler hatted man down].

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Half-plate. (Chinese Gardener at work). [Gardener with Chinese hat raking grass slope below Government House].

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Half-plate (landscape format).

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268 x 200 mm. View from Victoria looking out across the harbour towards the Kowloon Peninsula. The harbour itself is crowded with various types of vessels at anchor.

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268 x 207 mm. Duplicate of Y3077C/3.

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A series of photographs of Universities in Hong Kong.

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A view looking along Pedder Street in Victoria, with carts and rickshaws in the roadway. (source for the identification of the street: Klaus Liphard, contributor to Gwulo: Old Hong Kong).

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A view along Ice House Lane, off Queen's Road, Victoria, with a row of sedan chairs parked at the right of the street. At the end of the lane can be seen the studio of Mee Cheung, a Chinese commercial photographer who advertises his premises in the 'Directory and Chronicle for China' (1901 ed) as being located at 'Top floor of Ice House'.

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A rather blurred view showing four Chinese carrying two sedan chairs.

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An unidentified street scene in Hong Kong with sedan chairs and pedestrians in the foreground. The shop signs include those of two photographers, Tai Woo and Hung Choung.

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A series of photographs of universities in Hong Kong.

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584 x 215 mm (two prints joined). Panoramic view from the Peak looking north over the city of Victoria, Victoria Harbour and towards Kowloon. In the right hand print, at the bottom, can be seen the Roman Catholic Cathedral, with the prison beyond.

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130 x 80 mm. postcard.

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Half-plate. [No print]. Missing.

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A view showing the front façade of the bank, from Queen's Road, with a fountain in the foreground.