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Photo 337/3(39)
- Record Id:
- 041-003062982
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003062769
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025712784.0x000d8b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 337/3(39)
- Title:
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6. - Western suburbs of Canton looking south-east [after the tornado]. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
-
Genre: Historical Events
Letterpress continues: 'This view, taken from a house in Chung Wah Street, about one mile north of Canal Road, gives a faint idea of the vast extent of the damage but shews the direction the tornado took. Shameen [the foreign settlement] can be seen peeping over the roofs of the houses, and the whole of the intervening houses have sustained more or less injury. The narrowness of the streets almost preclude the possibility of taking a view from the ground and therefore the real damage is not evidenced on this spot, but when it is considered how closely packed are the houses, and the number of people who herd together under one roof, (without any attention to or knowledge of sanitary laws, and strange to say without the direful consequences to be expected from their lack of attention in this particular) the magnitude of the catastrophe and the almost hopelessness of escape may be realized.'
Subjects = disasters; tornadoes
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003062769
040-003062943
041-003062982 - Is part of:
- Photo 337 : Photographs of India and China. Photographer(s): Clifton and Co
Photo 337/3 : Views in Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Photographer(s): N. L. Miller, (?)Afong (and others?)
Photo 337/3(39) : 6. - Western suburbs of Canton looking south-east [after the tornado]. Photographer: Unknown - Hierarchy:
- 032-003062769[0003]/040-003062943[0039]/041-003062982
- 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:
- 1878
- End Date:
- 1878
- Date Range:
- Apr 1878
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Subjects:
- Canton Tornado, 1878
- Places:
- Canton, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Asia