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Hong Kong Hotel on fire

Submitted by schultie on Sun, 2017-11-05 23:05

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1926

I believe this to be a picture of the fire of the Hong Kong Hotel in 1926 because it comes from the collection of my grandfather Pieter Marks who lived and worked there (for the Dutch East Indies Commercial Bank, the 'Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank') in the early twenties until 1927. <Read more ...>