| Title |
Volume XIX : Borneo and Hong Kong, January 1909 |
| Reference |
Fisher 19 |
| Creator |
Fisher, Alfred Hugh, 1867-1945 |
| Covering Dates |
Jan. 1909 |
| Extent and Medium |
151 images in 1 boxed album |
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| Content and context |
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The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 4312-4476 (originally there were 155). Added numbers are: 4340A, 4353A and 4462A; not used: 4322, 4381, 4394, 4396, 4401, 4415, 4418, 4425-4427, 4450, 4466 and 4467; missing: 4320, 4358, 4455 and 4456.
Subjects covered in the album are:
North Borneo: Kampong Binai and Tenon: sports; road making; tobacco growing; Dyaks; Penotal Gorge; Orang Outang; rubber planting: sago factory, Membakut; pitcher plant; Jesselton; Imanan River Journey: Kudat; Sandakan and Bahalla; Sekong: rubber.
Hong Kong: Chinese New Year's Day; launch journey to Aberdeen, Stnaley, Shankiwan; general. China: Canton.
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| Further information |
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Indexed
This album is available on microfiche: General Collections, fiche numbers 105-106.
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| Index Terms |
| Asia |
| Borneo |
| China |
| East Malaysia |
| Hong Kong |
| Hong Kong |
| Hong Kong Island |
| Malay Archipelago |
| Fisher, Alfred Hugh (1867-1945) |
| RCS/Fisher 19 contains: |
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4312
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Group of Mouruts. New Year native sports at Kampong Binai and Yenous, 5 Jan 09. Quarter-plate (landscape format). To which natives from further up country came. Notice the spear-topped blowpipes or sumpitans. |
5 Jan. 1909 |
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4313
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Mouruts walking the greasy pole. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing pole extended over the river with a person falling off the pole].
Blurred.. |
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4314
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Mouruts walking the greasy pole. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing empty pole and audience on river bank watching candidate climbing out of the river]. |
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4315
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Mouruts walking the greasy pole. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing person about half way along the pole above the river with audience looking on]. |
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4316
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Group of Bisaya boys from Loongban, on Padas river near Beaufort. Quarter-plate. [Showing a row of boys photographed from one side, with palm trees and thatched houses in the background]. |
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4317
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A Tomogong Mourut from the Pagallan River, Yenous district. Quarter-plate. Putting on the chowat or loin cloth: note length of cloth and method of putting it on.
Blurred.. |
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4318
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Group of Dyaks from Sarawak. Quarter-plate. In the distance are some Yomogang women from the Pagallan River with green leaves and bright scarlet hybiscus flowers in their hair. [Showing group in European dress and girl wearing tartan skirt]. |
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4319
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A sumpitan match : Mouruts. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing audience of natives and some Europeans with palm trees in the background]. |
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4320
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Half-plate. [No print]. Missing. A sumpitan match. Mouruts : shooting darts with blow pipes at a running deer. |
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4321
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[A sumpitan match]. Half-plate (landscape format). [Mouruts: shooting darts with blow pipes at a running deer]. [Showing crowds around edge of open grass area with running deer - a short fence of wooden sticks with palm leaves. Behind crowd, are thatched houses among thick vegtation].
Slightly faded.. |
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4323
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Flat race of Mouruts. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing seven runners with round thatched huts and jungle in the background].
Slightly blurred.. |
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4324
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Flat race of Mouruts. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [The start of the race with audience behind and a large building in the background]. |
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4325
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The Grand Stand at Yenoun Sports. Quarter-plate (landscape format). These women include Javanese, Biscayas, Mouruts and Chinese. |
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4326
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Group of Mouruts. Quarter-plate (landscape format). All Ulu Padas Peluans.
Blurred.. |
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4327
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Mourut and other boys. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Flat race. |
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4328
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3 Mourut women in egg and spoon race. Quarter-plate (landscape format).
Blurred.. |
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4329
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Obstacle race. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Over bamboos. [Showing boys scaling the smooth bamboo poles]. |
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4330
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Obstacle race. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Through barrels. [Showing six barrels suspended from a pole by ropes with an umpire in white trousers, with jacket and hat standing by]. |
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4331
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Moorut after biting for dollars in a basin of flour. Quarter-plate. [Showing man with white hair and shoulders]. |
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4332
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Felling jungle to make a road. On the Padas River. [Showing two men with an ax by a partly felled tree in the jungle]. |
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4333
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Making a road through a jungle. Landscape format. Chinese coolies. |
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4334
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Making a drain beside a road. [Showing Chinese coolie digging the drain]. |
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4335
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Stapling tobacco. Half-plate (landscape format). Making it into heaps for fermenting after it has been dried: shed is 250 feet long.
Slightly faded.. |
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4336
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Farther down the shed. Half-plate (landscape format). Staples of tobacco: large heaps fermenting covered with matting. |
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4337
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Women sewing mats together for baling. Half-plate (landscape format).
Underexposed.. |
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4338
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Outside the fermenting shed. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Prisoners clearing the ground, which has to be kept constantly clear of grass. In the foreground are bullock carts used for carting tobacco: there are so very few wheeled vehicles in Borneo even in the coast towns that a sight of one is always noticeable. [Showing neatly thatched fermenting shed in background, the carts at the left and the prisoners in a row just in front of the shed]. |
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4339
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Assistant's bungalow on the same estate. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing large bungalow surrounded by trees, with a river in the foreground]. |
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4340
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Clearing and hoeing fields for planting. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Drying shed in the background. [Showing men at work with small bonfires]. |
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4340A
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(Same as 4340) [Clearing and hoeing fields for planting]. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [A closer view of men in action with bonfires and the drying shed]. |
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4341
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Clearing and hoeing fields for planting. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Drying shed in the background. |
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4342
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Scenes in a tobacco field just after picking. Quarter-plate. [Showing man standing beside tobacco plants, almost twice his size].
Slightly faded.. |
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4343
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Scenes in a tobacco field just after picking. Quarter-plate. [Showing line of men each carrying two large woven baskets on a yoke advancing from the field with jungle in the background].
Slightly faded.. |
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4344
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Scenes in a tobacco field just after picking. Quarter-plate. [Showing line of men each carrying two large woven baskets on a yoke advancing from the field with jungle in the background]. |
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4345
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The last picking. Quarter-plate. [Showing supervisors in white suits and hats down a path between two fields of tabacco]. |
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4346
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A tobacco field just picked off. Quarter-plate (landscape format). The tobacco here grown is all for the outside covering leaves of cigars. |
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4347
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Looking up a newly prepared valley. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Fields marked out though a few tree trunks remain]. |
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4348
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Land just prepared for tobacco planting. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [A closer view than previous print].
Blurred.. |
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4349
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Stacking virgin jungle, i.e. piling up trunks for burning. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Note a very large anthill at the back of pictures looking like a standing broken tree trunk. |
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4350
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Stacking virgin jungle, i.e. piling up trunks for burning. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Note a very large anthill at the back of pictures looking like a standing broken tree trunk. |
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4351
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Tobacco drying sheds and coolie houses. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Stream in the foreground and sheds and houses in the distance]. |
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4352
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Group of Dyaks. Landscape format. From Sarwak, taken at Sapong - (too dark for good photograph).
Faded.. |
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4353
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Group of Dyaks. Landscape format. From Sarwak, taken at Sapong.
Faded.. |
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4353A
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Group of Dyaks. Landscape format. From Sarawak, taken at Sapong.
Blurred.. |
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4354
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The Penotal Gorge, Padas River. View taken coming down from Tenom by trolley.
Blurred.. |
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4355
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Rapids in the Penotal Gorge. Landscape format. [Showing jungle along far side of the river]. |
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4356
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Rapids in the Penotal Gorge. Landscape format. [Showing depth of wooded gorge]. |
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4357
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The middle rapids. Penotal Gorge: Padas river not in flood. |
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4358
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Tukalilang in the Penotal Gorge. [Showing bush area beyond river with jungle in the background]. |
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4359
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Pangya Railway station. [Showing thatched building beyond the tracks with jungle in the background and a tree stump in the foreground]. |
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4360
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Crocodile on sand on other side of Padas River. |
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4361
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Another crocodile lower down the Padas river. |
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4362
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Young Orang Outang at Jimpangah, near Beaufort. [Sequence showing small Orang Outang being held by European woman in long white dress by banisters while European man, in white suite with topee offers his hand for play, probably A.C. Pearson, the Resident of Kudat]. |
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4363
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Young Orang Outang at Jimpangah, near Beaufort. [Sequence showing small Orang Outang being held by European woman in long white dress by banisters while European man, in white suite with topee offers his hand for play, probably A.C. Pearson, the Resident of Kudat]. |
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4364
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Young Orang Outang at Jimpangah, near Beaufort. [Sequence showing small Orang Outang being held by European woman in long white dress by banisters while European man, in white suite with topee offers his hand for play, probably A.C. Pearson, the Resident of Kudat]. |
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4365
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Young Orang Outang at Jimpangah, near Beaufort. [Sequence showing small Orang Outang being held by European woman in long white dress by banisters while European man, in white suite with topee offers his hand for play, probably A.C. Pearson, the Resident of Kudat]. |
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4366
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[European man in white plays with young Orang Outang]. |
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4367
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[European man in white plays with young Orang Outang]. |
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4368
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Landscape format. [No print]. Missing. Rubber plantation, Jimpangah. |
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4369
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Rubber plantation, near Beaufort. Landscape format. [Showing distant buildings among trees with large expanse of water in the foreground]. |
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4370
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Jungle cleared for rubber planting. Quarter-plate (landscape format). And young plants from nursery ready for planting. |
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4371
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Sago factory at Membakut. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Sago drying on maps in the sun: factory behind: in distance sago palms growing. |
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4372
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Washing the sago before drying. Quarter-plate (landscape format).
Underexposed.. |
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4373
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Scraping the sago palm trunk with nail studded boards. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Into a sawdust looking material which is afterwards washed many times. [Showing two men at work under the shade of a thatched roof]. |
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4374
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(same as 4373). [General view of two men scraping the sago palm trunk]. |
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4375
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Pitcher plant with pitchers 8 inches long. Half-plate. On the Lekas plain near Jesselton: the stick placed in ground measures 34 inches from the paper at its base. |
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4376
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Close up of Pitcher plants. Half-plate. Seen in previous picture.
Faded.. |
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4377
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View of Jesselton Headquarters Barracks. Half-plate (landscape format). From the terrace of Government House: B.N.B. Constabulary (sikhs and pathans) with field battery including the maxim that killed the rebel Matsuli.
Water stained.. |
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4378
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Government House, Jesselton from the hill called Fort Victoria. Half-plate (landscape format). Mr and Mrs Gueritz in front of the house. [A cannon in the right foreground and Government beyond the stream on a rise with hills in the distance]. |
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4379
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Bajan Cemetry at Sambulon. Half-plate (landscape format]. Close to Jesselton. [Carved wooden posts among shrubs]. |
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4380
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Mt Kinabalu from the sea near Jesselton.
Blurred.. |
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4382
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A typical out station up the Inanam River. Quarter-plate (landscape format). A typical district officers boat of state (pukerangin).
Faded and water stained.. |
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4383
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The Doosen half of the village. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Doosens in canoe: Resident coming up the river. [Resident in typical district officers boat with oars].
Blurred.. |
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4384
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Cocoanut [i.e. coconut] Palm. Quarter-plate. With prickly stems bound round the trunk to stop rats and squirrels. |
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4385
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The Tamu before the District Officer has given the signal to begin trading. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [D.O. not visible]. |
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4386
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Damar, a kind of resin exuded from trees. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Sold to Chinese Traders. [Showing milling group with man carrying back pannier with a large container tied on top, possibly containing damar]. |
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4387
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At the Tamu on the Inanam River. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [A crowd of traders]. |
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4388
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Group of Idill Doosens at the Tamu. Quarter-plate. (Note brass coiled round arm and waist). [Showing woman with brass coiled round arm and waist carrying funnel-shaped container on her back standing with three other people]. |
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4389
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Native Doosen Musical Instrument. Quarter-plate. Called a sumpitan (same word as for blow pipe for darts, meaning literally a tube or pipe). Mooruts also use this type of musical instrument.
Blurred. |
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4390
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Doosen woman of the Dosen Lewan Tribe. Quarter-plate. |
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4391
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A picnic up-country in Borneo. Quarter-plate. [Showing group of 8 Europeans sitting on the ground with jungle behind. Women (4) in long white dresses and with hats with two men in white with topees and two more in dark clothes. 12 copies of the print were sent to Mrs Gueritz, Government House, Sandakan, North Borneo on 29.04.09, so maybe her picnic].
Slightly faded.. |
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4392
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Crocodile on the Inamam River. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [River bank thick with vegetation with river in the foreground]. |
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4393
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Sandakan. [Showing distant harbour].
Dirty.. |
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4395
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Kudat. The Resident coming out in his boat. [Showing sailing boat with land in the distance].
Dirty print.. |
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4397
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The Resident of Kudat, A.C. Pearson, Esq. Quarter-plate. And his pet Wahah. |
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4398
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Wahah Monkey (black). Quarter-pIate. It has never been taken to Zoo. |
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4399
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Bahalla Island. Landscape format. Just outside Sandakan. [Showing wooded hill at end of island across water].
Dirty.. |
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4400
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Bahalla Island. Landscape format. Reddish sandstone - dark almost purple in places: The face of the rock rises almost sheer from the sea.
Dirty.. |
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4402
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Nepa palms. Up the Sakong river: used extensively for the light walls of rooms. |
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4403
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Bridge at Sekong. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Showing European crossing the high wooden bridge to the village among the palms. Copy of print sent to Dr Davies, Sandakan, Br. N.B. on 29.iv.09, so maybe of him]. |
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4404
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Giant Lalang tree at Sekong. Half-plate (landscape format). On the rubber estates. [Showing two European men dwarfed at the foot of the tree]. |
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4405
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Seedling rubber trees. Half-plate (landscape format). In front of Managers House, Sekong Estate: one seed planted in each basket, and when 18 inches high whole basket is planted, roots not being disturbed. [Remains of Giant Lalang trees also shown]. |
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4406
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Tapping six year old rubber trees on the Sekong Estate. Half-plate (landscape format). [A dark jungle scene].
Underexposed.. |
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4407
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(Same as 4406). [Tapping rubber trees on Sekong Estate]. Half-plate (landscape format). [Showing two people in the dark forest].
Slightly faded.. |
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4408
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Port of Sandakan. Half-plate (landscape format). From verandah of the Residents House: note the English Church. |
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4409
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Sandakan from the east above the Fort. Half-plate (landscape format). N.D.L. steamer Borneo loading timber [left in harbour] Sandakan Town Centre [centre left] Shipping and Engineering works [near left] Chinese Shops [right, with] Govt. Offices, [and] Parsonage and church [behind them, and] Clock Tower [among trees slightly to their left]. (Fisher). |
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4410
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Shipway and engineering works. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Of the China Borneo Company: a small lighter for a tobacco estate just now on the ships: in front is seen the cradle capable of taking ships up to 400 tons. |
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4411
|
Sandakan. Cliff, and the Bajan- Malay part of the town (west end) on the way to the cutch works. [Town hidden by palm trees to the left with? sentry box to right of road and man standing in front of drying sheets on the grass near the cliffs with caves on the right]. |
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4412
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Cutch works, Sandakan. Quarter-plate (landscape format). The Bakau Co Ltd: turns out about 80 tons per month: exported to England, France Germany, Holland, U.S.A. The best cutch is obtained from the Tungah tree. Tungah tree gives 61-63% of tannin absorbable by hide. [Showing forest behind and a tram-lines leading from the works along ? pier]. |
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4413
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Sandakan. Landscape format. [Showing? warehouses on stilts over the sea with town and wooded hills behind].
Faded.. |
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4414
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Kapuan Island. Quarter-plate (landscape format). 35 lepers there now: mostly Chinese. [Distant view of island from the sea].
Faded.. |
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4416
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Bullock Roller. Sandakan.
Slightly blurred.. |
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4417
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Loading the Borneo, N.D.L., with timber at Sandakan. Landscape format. [Using hook and chain pulley].
Slightly blurred. |
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4419
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Timber rafts, Sandakan. [Showing rafts along side ship]. |
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4420
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Timber rafts, Sandakan. [Showing rafts with town across the water]. |
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4421
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The Peak, Hong Kong. Quarter-plate (landscape format). [With sailing boats in centre foreground]. |
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4422
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Street in Hong Kong. Quarter-plate (landscape format). On Chinese New Year's Day - note litter of crackers on the ground. [A quiet street scene with four storied houses]. |
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4423
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Street in Hong Kong. New Year's Day. Quarter-plate.
Blurred.. |
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4424
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(the same) [Hong Kong street]. Quarter-plate.
Blurred.. |
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4428
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Chinese New Year's Day, Hong Kong. Quarter-plate. Letting off big crackers, as before every Chinese house of importance. [Street scenes]. |
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4429
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Chinese New Year's Day, Hong Kong. Quarter-plate. Letting off big crackers, as before every Chinese house of importance. [Street scenes]. |
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4430
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Chinese New Year's Day, Hong Kong. Quarter-plate. Letting off big crackers, as before every Chinese house of importance. [Street scenes]. |
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4431
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Ferry to Kowloon, Hong Kong. Landscape format. [Showing the ferry pier and large stone building behind]. |
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4432
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Cargo boats anchored just outside the southern fairway. Quarter-plate (landscape format). |
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4433
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Plague Hospitals. Landscape format. Hong Kong. The Hygeia, Hospital Ships, and shore Plague Hospital. [A misty scene across the water]. |
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4434
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Sampans at Aberdeen. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Hong Kong Island. |
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4435
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Aberdeen landing stage. Quarter-plate (landscape format). And Anglo-Chinese School. |
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4436
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At Aberdeen : large rock fish. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Weighing about 90 lbs. This will be towed alive behind a launch to Hong Kong Market. [Fish hanging against landing stage where group looks on]. |
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4437
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Street at Aberdeen, Hong Kong Island. Half-plate (landscape format). [Showing stalls on either side]. |
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4438
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Paper Mills at Aberdeen. Quarter-plate (landscape format). |
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4439
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Stanley, Hong Kong Island. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Where the British troops landed in 1839. [A distant view of the town with hills behind taken from a boat]. |
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4440
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(same as 4439). [Stanley]. Landscape format. [A closer view]. |
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4441
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Stanley. Quarter-plate (landscape format). The backs of the houses which face on to the main street. [Showing houses on stilts with boats at the waters edge]. |
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4442
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Stanley, from near the old well. Half-plate (landscape format). [View down onto the harbour with boats in the bay]. |
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4443
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The old cemetery at Stanley. Quarter-plate (landscape format). Graves of British soldiers (1840) and wives of some of them. |
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4444
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General view of Stanley from above the cemetery. Landscape format. In foreground is the site of the Old British Cantonment of 1839: note Chinese Temple across the bay. [A misty distance].
Slightly faded.. |
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4445
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Old fort of Saiwan, Hong Kong. From the Stanley Road, two hours walk from Stanley. [Distant view of the fort on the hill from the road].
Slightly faded.. |
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4446
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Shau Kiwan. Landscape format. On the left note the docks of Butterfield and Swire: in the distance note Taimoshan mountains, which means big cloud or big hat mountain. Note lion rock: a railway tunnel has been begun under the left of this in the distance. [View down onto docks with misty distance]. |
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4447
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(same as 4446 [sic]). [same as 4444]. Landscape format. [General view of Stanley from above the cemetery].
Slightly faded.. |
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4448
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(Same as 4446 [sic]). Landscape format. [Probabaly Stanley, refer to 4442, but a more distant view].
Slightly faded.. |
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4449
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Lyee mun pass (mun = door or passage). Landscape format. To left leads to Hong Kong Harbour: to right leads to open sea. Villages here are quarry villages - quarries being leased out - junks are fighting through against the tide. |
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4451
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Scene at Shau Kiwan. Landscape format. In foreground note timbers for making masts. [A misty scene]. |
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4452
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The late Queen's statue. Half-plate. Women in foreground carrying pigs in baskets. |
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4453
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Chinese coolies at work road making. Landscape format. Near Queen's Statue: Hong Kong. |
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4454
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Victoria Recreation Club, Hong Kong. Half-plate (landscape format). [Overlooking sea with launch Pearl at bottom of harbour steps, with steamer in the distant haze]. |
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4455
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Quarter-plate. [No print]. Missing. Looking towards Kowloon Ferry Pier from the Victoria Recreation Club. |
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4456
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Half-plate. [No print]. Missing. Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. |
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4457
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Wardley Street, Hong Kong. Quarter-plate. The building on the left is the H.K. and S Bank: shows also Queens Statue from the back. [Showing man pulling a rickshaw on right of street and man (blurred) standing at left]. |
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4458
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Ice House Road. Quarter-plate. Close to Battery Path. [Showing open space in foreground with tree at near end of the road, with rickshaws]. |
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4459
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View from Battery Path. Half-plate. On the way up to Government Offices. [Looking down to rickshaws parked in the shade of trees with stone buildings on the left with pillars]. |
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4460
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Government House, Hong Kong. Half-plate. (Chinese Gardener at work). [Gardener with Chinese hat raking grass slope below Government House]. |
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4461
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Government House, Hong Kong. Half-plate (landscape format). |
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4462
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The Botanical Gardens, Hong Kong. Half-plate (landscape format). [Monument in centre of ornamental pond with plants, some in pots and a few people wandering past. Trees and buildings in the background]. |
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4462A
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In the Botanical Gardens. Quarter-plate. [Path with beeches on the left and trees showing large white building in the distance and three people in the foreground]. |
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4463
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Roman Catholic Cathedral And Glenealy, Hong Kong. Half-plate (landscape format). [View down to part of Cathedral with harbour and hills in the background]. |
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4464
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Glenealy, Hong Kong. Half-plate. [A jungly picture with steep path to the left on which are two rickshaws being pulled/pushed by two natives each one carrying a woman up and the other a bowler hatted man down]. |
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4465
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The Flower Market, Hong Kong. Half-plate. [View down onto the market below in the shade of trees with tall buildings on either side]. |
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4468
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The Sports Ground, Shameen, Canton. Landscape format. [Showing uniformed men standing around outside tall buildings on the right]. |
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4469
|
View of the Creek Canton. Half-plate (landscape format). On the right is one corner of the Shameen: on the left the suburb Shakee of the city of Canton: in the distance is seen the British Bridge: This view shows some of the small craft of the large river population.
Slightly faded.. |
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4470
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View from Canton City Wall. Landscape format. Looking over suburb roofs - shows one of the new fire lookouts. |
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4471
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View along top of City Wall, Canton. Landscape format. Showing buildings above the (hidden) gateway; in diatance to left note twin spires of the French cathedral within the city. |
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View from the same part of the Wall. Landscape format. Looking towards the Flowery Pagoda, and on the extreme left the Kus-yam-san, or Queen of Heavens mountain, and the five storeyed pagoda. [View over roof tops]. |
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A little further along the wall, Canton. Groups of people, mostly Manchus: the girl in the lightest clothes is Cantonese. |
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View from same part of wall. Looking south across suburb and showing three pawn shops. |
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Group of Manchu women and children. From same point on wall (all Manchu). |
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Another view of the Mountain of the Queen of Heaven. Landscape format. The five-storeyed pagoda, and a fort to the left outside the wall. [With a river in the foreground]. |
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