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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Seen from the British Consular steps of the Shameen.

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Groups of people, mostly Manchus: the girl in the lightest clothes is Cantonese.

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Landscape format. The five-storeyed pagoda, and a fort to the left outside the wall. [With a river in the foreground].

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Half-plate (landscape format). [Showing steps leading up to wooden doors, some painted, of single storey building, with two men standing on the steps and a stone carved lion at the foot of the steps].

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Half-plate. [View from a covered area with carved eaves above, across to a well bolted wooden doorway in a wall and eaves of another building beyond].

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A view looking over the Canton rooftops. The devastation of many of the houses visible in the photograph is presumably attributable to one or more of the many revolutionary uprisings which took place in Canton from 1911 onwards.

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Two photographs mounted together showing (a) a sampan and (b) a passenger boat [junk].

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A view looking over the well-tended lawn and garden towards the College buildings.

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A view showing a crowded settlement of sampans, probably on the Chu River, with a bridge and a small island in the background.

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A well composed photograph showing a junk in the wide Chu River estuary.

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A view showing a crowded settlement of sampans on the Chu River.

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In the courtyard of the five-storeyed pagoda.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...

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Quarter-plate. British Concession, Canton. Coals to Newcastle : the diabolo being a very old Chinese game. [Showing European girl playing the game].

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...

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Burying ground all round the hill. This was used as a powder magazine, but 2 years ago the officer in charge and nine men were blown up with the whole magazine: the explosion destroyed hundreds of houses; those shown in this view have been rebuilt.

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From same point on wall (all Manchu).

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A view showing a houseboat on the Chu River.

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A view showing a crowded settlement of warehouses and huts on the bank of the Chu River.

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A view along the river bank.

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A view showing three-masted junks on the Chu River, a good composition spoiled through lack of tonal contrast.

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A rear-view of a junk on the Chu River, with a village on the bank in the background.

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A murky view showing two junks, possibly transporting a large raft of timber down river.

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A view showing a river boat of the Sun Ning Railway Co at a jetty on the Chu River.

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Slides 237-244 are copies of prints by Hiroshige.