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Philip and Sylvia Harding Klimanek in Jessfield Park, Shanghai, ca. 1933

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2022-01-23 15:59

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today].

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1933
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Harding Klimanek family portrait, Shanghai, ca. 1932

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2022-01-23 15:45

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' senior manager. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today].

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1932
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Dörner - Lane Crawford.jpg

Submitted by christoph on Thu, 2016-10-13 03:34
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1901
Places shown in this photo: 
Royal Buildings North / Cecil Hotel [1904-1954]

A postcard sent by the piano manufacturer F. Doerner in Stuttgart, Germany, to Lane, Crawford & Co. in 1901. Doerner announces the delivery of four pianos to Hong Kong.

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