Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines, roads and tracks, proposed roads, settlements, place names and engineering structures, and includes engineering notes. Detail extends approximately 1 mile from the road.
The lists provide a key, in Wade-Giles romanisation, to 52,886 place names as numbered on respective map sheets held at CHI/133/1. Some of the lists bear the endorsement 'Student of the South Gate' together with the romanised name of the transliterator.
Map of the Colony of Hong Kong including new territories (Kowloon Extension Agreement dated 9th June 1889 [i.e. 1898].) New territories portion compiled by W.J. Newland 1903-04. Added to & revised by P.W.D. 1913.
'General Plan of Chin-Wang-Tao. Plan No. II. Field-Litho. Bo[mbay]. S[appers] & M[iners].'
Scope & Content:
Covers the peninsula formed by Nanshan Mountain (南山), extending approximately 1 mile to the north. Shows hydrology, railway lines, and the locations of buildings of French, German and Japanese mining companies.
'Sketch Map of Kuliang [鼓嶺] Settlement Published by Kuliang Council'
Scope & Content:
Shows a hill station six miles north-east of Foochow [福州], indicating roads and numbered residences (cottages). The names of cottage owners and their respective winter residences are given in the margin as a key to the numbers. The item is a bromide made in 1944 from an original, produced in 19...