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231. 10057.f.14(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
10057.f.14(2)
Title:
Government House [Hong Kong]. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Facing p. 2. Panoramic view composed of two joined prints, with Government House and garden on the left and the town of Victoria and harbour and shipping beyond on the right. The photograph was presumably taken around the time of Prince Alfred's visit to H...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
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Date Range:
c 1869
Extent:
1 item

232. 10057.f.14(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
10057.f.14(3)
Title:
Queen's Road [Hong Kong], (prepared for illuminations). Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Facing p. 5. View looking along the street, with houses bedecked with paper lanterns in honour of the visit of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
Nov 1869
Extent:
1 item

233. 10057.f.14(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
10057.f.14(4)
Title:
Chinese street [Hong Kong] (prepared for illuminations). Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Facing p. 7. View looking along Lyndhurst Terrace, with houses bedecked with paper lanterns in honour of the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh and with a large and ornately-decorated arch in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
Nov 1869
Extent:
1 item

234. 10057.f.14(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
10057.f.14(5)
Title:
Hongkong facing the harbour. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Facing p. 11. View looking along the Victoria waterfront, presumably around the time of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit, with British commercial premises lining the quayside and sampans and other craft moored at the jetties.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1869
Extent:
1 item

235. 10057.f.14(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
10057.f.14(6)
Title:
The race course and Happy Valley [Hong Kong]. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Facing p. 17. General view looking down on the Happy Valley Racecourse, presumably photographed around the time of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to Hong Kong.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1869
Extent:
1 item

236. 10057.f.14(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
10057.f.14(7)
Title:
The City Hall [Hong Kong]. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Thomson' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography Facing p. 21. View of City Hall from the lawn in front of the building, presumably photographed around the time of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to Hong Kong. The City Hall was the location for a ball held in Princ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1869
Extent:
1 item

237. 10076.i.2, 1

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 1
Title:
Through Cyprus with the camera in the autumn of 1878...In two volumes. With sixty permanent photographs. Vol. I. Photographer(s): Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street. 1879 Folio, half-leather binding with red cloth boards (British Museum binding, 1971), measuring 322 x 280 mm; edges gilt; containing 12 woodburytypes and 19 carbon prints, mounted on light card, ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
1878
Extent:
31 items

238. 10076.i.2, 1(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 1(1)
Title:
Larnaca Marina, looking north. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of balconied waterfront houses overlooking the harbour at Larnaca: 'Rude jetties invade the sea, while the shore bristles with wooden piles, the wrecks of landing stages, or waterside cafés. Larnaca, indeed, looks as if it had been groping its way sea...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

239. 10076.i.2, 1(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 1(2)
Title:
Larnaca Marina, looking south. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking southwards along the length of the waterfront.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

240. 10076.i.2, 1(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 1(3)
Title:
The sea shore, Larnaca. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the beach towards the harbour in the distance, with a figure posed beside a clump of cactus in the foreground: 'The photograph presents a view of the modern shore, which seems gradually to have been built up by the denudation of the rocks of the o...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item