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Landscape format.

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Landscape format.

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[The harbour crowded with vessels of different sizes].

Scope and Contents 82 x 82 mm. colour glass slides. Reproductions of engravings of people and buildings, probably dating from the nineteenth century. The slides retain their original numbers. A slip of paper with the collection bears the name of Rev. G.F.C. Dobson. George Francis Clement Dobson was born in 1869, and after taking his degree at Cambridge University, became a teacher. From 1900 to 1909 he served as Assistant Master at the CMS Anglo-Chinese School in Shanghai (Acting Principal in 1907), when he...

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And Chinese warship close to Shanghai.

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

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269 x 210 mm. Printed from a cracked plate. View of the main façade of the Customs House on the Shanghai Bund. A red brick building, with details in ‘Tudor’ style, the Customs House consists of a central block with a square clock tower rising above the main entrance, flanked by two projecting wings terminating with gables. The building was completed in 1893.

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278 x 211 mm. View looking along the Foochow Road, with Chinese commercial premises on either side of the street. The road runs from east to west through the Central District.

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273 x 209 mm. View looking towards a large three storey verandahed building in timber in the Foochow Road. The building appears to house a number of commercial premises.

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273 x 202 mm. View looking along Honan Road, the street lined with Chinese commercial premises, and with banners with Chinese inscriptions hanging outside the shops and over the roadway. Honan Road ran north to south through the Central District of the city.

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267 x 213 mm. View from the landing stage on the Shanghai Bund looking towards the Nanking Road, with the Central Hotel on the left and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China on the right.

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268 x 211 mm. View looking down onto the landing stage at Shanghai, with lines of rickshaws in the foreground and boats moored on the River Whangpoo beyond.

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Landscape format. [Showing large packets or bales in the foreground with a few people standing about with wheelbarrows and a crowded street behind with tall buildings on the left].

Scope and Contents 2220 x 198 mm. A panoramic view, composed from 8 joined prints contained in boards with a leather titlepiece on the cover reading 'Shanghai Bund Tuck Tai Photographer'. The only identification given with the panorama is that of the Customs House in the fourth section. The view is taken from the south (Pootung) side of the river on the headland formed by the 90 degrees curve of the Whangpoo. The panorama embraces an angle of view of some 250 degrees and shows the following landmarks (from...

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275 x 206 mm. View looking across the lawn at the race course, with groups of spectators gathered on the turf, towards the imposing grandstand. For earlier views of the course see Y30383A.

Scope and Contents 277 x 205 mm. View of the 'grandstand' of the race course, a small wooden pavilion with tiled and pyramidal hipped roof whose ridges project over the eaves and are curled upwards in Chinese style. Race-goers, officials and jockeys are posed for the photographer on the verandah and in front of the stand, while other spectators are seated in the background on the embanked slope overlooking the track. The first race course in Shanghai was on a plot of land known as the Old Park, with the...

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273 x 179mm. View looking across the race-track towards spectators on the embanked slope, with a group of sailors leaning against the wooden railings of the course, and the pavilion.

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Landscape format. [Scene on the river].

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Landscape format. [Scene on the river].

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Landscape format. [Scene on the river].

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Landscape format. [Scene on the river].

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Note wheelbarrow men waiting. [Street scene].

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Landscape format.

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254 x 193 mm. View looking along an unidentified street in the Chinese quarter of Shanghai.

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,...