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Everything tagged "1874 typhoon"

19. Yowmatee - Showing General Wreck

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1874

20. Yowmatee - Another View

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1874

15. Kowloon City - Looking North East

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1874

St. Joseph Chapel 1874

St Joseph, R. C. Chapel, destroyed by typhoon 22 Sep 74. Hong Kong.

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1874

HOPIC 2 Fig 29.jpg

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1874

This image previously appeared in Terry Bennett's "History of Photography in China: Western Photographers 1861–1879", published by Bernard Quaritch in 2010, with the caption:

Fig. 1.29. Hongkong Photographic Company. ‘The Late Typhoon At Hongkong.’ Wood-engraving after a photograph, from the Illustrated London News, 21st November 1874. Author’s Collection.

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It is reproduced here with the permission of the author and publisher.

HOPIC 2 Fig 30.jpg

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1874

This image previously appeared in Terry Bennett's "History of Photography in China: Western Photographers 1861–1879", published by Bernard Quaritch in 2010, with the caption:

Fig. 1.30. Hongkong Photographic Company. ‘The Pacific Mail Steam-Ship Company’s Steamer Alaska Cast Ashore.’ Wood-engraving after a photograph, from the Illustrated London News, 21st November 1874. Author’s Collection.

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1874 Typhoon

In one of Martyn Gregory's old photo albums a couple of photos show the destruction of this powerful typhoon, and a folded, yellowed slip of newspaper describes the event. All are reproduced here with Martyn's kind permission.


The first photo shows several sunken ships and the ruined piers and sea-wall between Central and Sheung Wan. The large building on the right in the distance is the City Hall.

Damage from 1874 typhoon

 


North-China Daily News

EXTRA.

[ISSUED TO SUBSCRIBERS.]

TUESDAY, 29th SEPTEMBER, 1874.

TERRIFIC TYPHOON AT HONGKONG.

IMMENSE LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY.

(Abridged from “Daily Press.")

It is our painful duty to record one of the most appalling disasters that has ever happened in this Colony. A typhoon of unprecedented violence raged in this neighbourhood on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning last.

The weather

SS Alaska washed ashore by typhoon

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1874

Typhone 1874

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1874

1874 Typhoon at Hong Kong

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1874

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November 21st 1874

HM Gunboat Flame admidst the Ruins of the Boat-House and Swimming-Bath

The Pacific Mail steam ship Alaska cast ashore

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