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1787.d.7, 1(2)
- Record Id:
- 040-003228220
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003228218
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026867937.0x001109
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1787.d.7, 1(2)
- Title:
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Hong Kong. Photographer: Thomson, John
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography
View looking along the waterfront, with the harbour to the right: 'The eminence on the left is Morrison's Hill, crowned with a row of substantially built foreign residences, and commanding an extensive and imposing view of the city and ports. Victoria, with its long line of wharves and warehouses, its public buildings, and its private residences in elegant rows, is seen resting on the slope of the hill ... The masts of the shipping, which rise like a forest about the Victoria promontory, may give the reader some conception of the magnitude of our trade at Hong-Kong ... Previous to the above dates [1842-43] Hong-Kong was as barren and uninteresting as the islands around it at the present day, where one can find nothing more than a few fishing hamlets, enjoying, however, a degree of prosperity unknown before the advent of the British flag...'
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003228218
040-003228220 - Is part of:
- 1787.d.7, 1 : Illustrations of China and its people. A series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and…
1787.d.7, 1(2) : Hong Kong. Photographer: Thomson, John - Hierarchy:
- 032-003228218[0002]/040-003228220
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: 1787.d.7, 1
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Collotype
Photomechanical Print - Start Date:
- 1870
- End Date:
- 1872
- Date Range:
- c 1870-1872
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 162 mm x 269 mm
Format: Printed Book
Secondary Support: Paper
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Thomson, John
- Subjects:
- Bodies Of Water
Harbours