Genre: Landscape Photography View along a path in the gardens, lined with tree ferns. [Albumen print, 212x272mm]. Subjects = public gardens; tree ferns; trees & plants
Peak District, Hong Kong. Probably taken abt. 1885. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the Peak, showing the layout of roads and houses. Handwritten notes on the album page identify the following landmarks: Commodore's Cabin (flagstaff), Plantation Road, the Homestead, road to Pokfulam, Treverlyn. [Albumen print, 270x219mm]. Sub...
Canton River Steamer 'Kinkiang' in Hong Kong Harbour. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography Showing the paddle steamer 'Kinkiang' under way in Hong Kong harbour. [Albumen print, 292x212mm]. Subjects = harbours; Kinkiang (Canton river steamer); paddle steamers; river steamers; steamers; transport; water transport
No. 68. A group of Hongkong Native Police. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Formally posed studio group of uniformed police. [Albumen print, 290x217mm]. Subjects = Hong Kong Police; police; uniforms
Canton, the suburbs, before 1900. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across rooftops towards the Flower Pagoda in the distance (see also print 42). [Albumen print, 290x225mm]. Subjects = Chinese architecture; pagodas; temples
Hong Kong Harbour looking north. Abt. 1890. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View from Victoria looking towards shipping at anchore in the harbour. Handwritten notes on the album page identify the following landmarks: Stone Cutters Island, City Hall, Tai Mo Shan Hill. [Albumen print, 267x211mm]. Subjects = harbours; shipping
City of Victoria, Hong Kong. Abt. 1890. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the cricket ground towards the Cathedral, Butterfield and Swire's offices and City Hall (swathed in scaffolding), with Government House on the hillside behind (very distant). A sketch map on the album page identifies the relative location of thes...
A street chair in Hong Kong. Photographer: Unknown
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Showing a European man being carried in a sedan chair by two Chinese bearers. [Albumen print, 267x214mm]. Subjects = road transport; sedan chairs; transport
Canton. No. 310. Boats on the river. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography Views of sampans moored at the riverside. The letterpress caption note reads: 'Once it was ascertained that there were 84,000 boats registered as belonging to the City of Canton, but whether they all remained near the City or went to other places it was not ascertai...