Hong Kong Island (area)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 115 Collections and/or Records:
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A principal street in Hong Kong [Pedder Street], undated, [?1930s]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/174
Scope and Contents
A copy of a half-tone photograph showing Pedder Street. On the right is the Hongkong Hotel, further down is Hotel Mansions / Union Building, and beyond that is Connaught Road and the harbour. The last building on the left with the tower is Jardine House. The image is undated but might be from the 1930s due to the absence of sedan chairs and rickshaws, and the types of cars present (source for the identification of buildings and date: Klaus Liphard, contributor to Gwulo: Old Hong Kong).
Dates:
undated, [?1930s]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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A view from the Foreign Correspondents' Club overlooking Hong Kong, 1960 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302D/7
Scope and Contents
195 x 129 mm. General view looking down onto the Hong Kong waterfront, with Kowloon in the distance across the harbour.
Dates:
1960 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Aberdeen landing stage, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4435
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). And Anglo-Chinese School.
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Aden [i.e. Adan], Malaya [i.e. Malay Peninsula], and Hong Kong, circa 1909, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/134-182
Scope and Contents
Also described as: 'Aden, Hong Kong, ?1909'.
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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At Aberdeen : large rock fish, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4436
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Weighing about 90 lbs. This will be towed alive behind a launch to Hong Kong Market. [Fish hanging against landing stage where group looks on].
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Beach scene, (?) Hong Kong], 1908 - 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/201
Scope and Contents
A view showing a sandy beach with beach chalets in the foreground and a (?) hotel beyond.
Dates:
1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Beach scene, (?) Hong Kong], 1908 - 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/202
Scope and Contents
A panoramic view of a beach.
Dates:
1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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BOAC [i.e British Overseas Airways Corporation] over Hong Kong, 1960 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302D/6
Scope and Contents
194 x 141 mm. Aerial view of the Hong Kong waterfront, with the hill in the background.
Dates:
1960 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cargo boats anchored just outside the southern fairway, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4432
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format).
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Chinese coolies at work road making [historic title], 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4453
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. Near Queen's Statue: Hong Kong.
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Chinese New Year's Day, Hong Kong, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4428
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. Letting off big crackers, as before every Chinese house of importance. [Street scenes].
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Chinese New Year's Day, Hong Kong, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4429
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. Letting off big crackers, as before every Chinese house of importance. [Street scenes].
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Chinese New Year's Day, Hong Kong, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4430
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. Letting off big crackers, as before every Chinese house of importance. [Street scenes].
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Chinese Police : Hong Kong, 1909-01 - 1909-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4547
Scope and Contents
[Showing back of policeman in corridor].
Dates:
1909-01 - 1909-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Chinese Police : Hong Kong, 1909-01 - 1909-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4548
Scope and Contents
[Blurred view of policeman].
Dates:
1909-01 - 1909-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[(?) Connaught Road], 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/177
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Connaught Road, [1912-1915]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/180
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...
Dates:
[1912-1915]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[(?) Connaught Road], 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/181
Scope and Contents
A view looking west along (?) Connaught Road with the British-American Tobacco Company's offices on the left and moored boats to the right.
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Coolie raincoats [historic title], 1909-01 - 1909-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4502
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format).
Dates:
1909-01 - 1909-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Coolie raincoats : Hong Kong [historic title], 1909-01 - 1909-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 20/4501
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Made of palm leaves. [Rather distant views of coolies pulling rickshaws, wearing their palm leaves raincoats].
Dates:
1909-01 - 1909-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Ferry to Kowloon, Hong Kong, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4431
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [Showing the ferry pier and large stone building behind]
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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General view of Stanley from above the cemetery, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4444
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. In foreground is the site of the Old British Cantonment of 1839: note Chinese Temple across the bay. [A misty distance].
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Glenealy, Hong Kong, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4464
Scope and Contents
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].
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Government House, Hong Kong, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4460
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. (Chinese Gardener at work). [Gardener with Chinese hat raking grass slope below Government House].
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Government House, Hong Kong, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 19/4461
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format).
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).