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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1183(57)
Title:: Interior, Chinese church, Sumatra. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Interior view looking towards the altar, of the kelenteng or Chinese temple, known by the name of See Him Kiong, at Padang, Sumatra. Identification of location from Steven Wachlin, 'Woodbury and Page: Photographers Java' (KITLV Press, Leiden, 1994), where this p...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1185(2)
Title:: Village scene, Ceylon. Photographer: William Louis Henry Skeen and Company.
Scope & Content:: Blind stamped lower left, Photographers W. L. H. Skeen & Co Colombo Ceylon View looking along the road leading through a village, with thatched houses on either side and jungle in the background. With a Singhalese man posed beside the road in the middleground.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1188(2)
Title:: Looking across the bay to Kowloon and mainland from Bowen Road, above Hong Kong. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:: Buildings visible in this view include the Union Church (bottom left), the Cable House (left, along the harbour) and the St. John's Protestant Church (right of the tree, along the harbour).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1188(4)
Title:: A street of 'flower boats,' places of amusement and debauchery, Canton, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:: View is taken from an upper level of a boat facing north.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1188(5)
Title:: Canton, the vast metropolis of China, from the pagoda on the northern wall. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:: View taken from the northern side of the city, facing south-east towards the Canton River.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1188(6)
Title:: Panorama northwest from the northern wall of the city, Canton. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1188(8)
Title:: Splendor of Chun-Ka-Chie, ancestral hall of the great Chun family of Canton, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1188(9)
Title:: In the Temple of Five Hundred Genii (founded A. D. 500) among its 500 disciples of Buddha [Hualin Temple], Canton. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1188(10)
Title:: Examination Hall—rows of 12,000 cells, where the Ku-Yan Triennial Examinations are held, Canton. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1188(19)
Title:: Looking across Nankin Road to a native tea-house, Shanghai, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:: View of Nankin Road, in the European quarter of Shanghai.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

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