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Photo 337/2(5)
- Record Id:
- 041-003062900
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003062769
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025712784.0x000d39
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 337/2(5)
- Title:
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Destruction of property on the Praya [Victoria, Hong Kong]. Photographer: Lai Afong
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Historical Events
'This view represents the part of the Praya to the west, near the premises of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. The typhoon seemed peculiarly destructive in this neiighbourhood. A large portion of the Praya wall was washed down, and the coping stones, heavy blocks of granite, were carried some distance. The property fronting the harbour suffered considerably, many of the houses being unroofed and in other ways damaged. The small boat shown in front are known as 'sampans'; they are the only 'household accommodation of many Chinese families.'
Subjects = disasters; typhoons; wharves
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003062769
040-003062895
041-003062900 - Is part of:
- Photo 337 : Photographs of India and China. Photographer(s): Clifton and Co
Photo 337/2 : Album of views of the Hong Kong and Macao Typhoon of 1874. Photographer(s): Lai Afong
Photo 337/2(5) : Destruction of property on the Praya [Victoria, Hong Kong]. Photographer: Lai Afong - Hierarchy:
- 032-003062769[0002]/040-003062895[0005]/041-003062900
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 337
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1873
- End Date:
- 1875
- Date Range:
- c Sep 1874
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Lai Afong, 1840-1900
- Subjects:
- Hong Kong Typhoon, 1874
- Places:
- Victoria, Australia, Oceania, Hong Kong, China, Asia