Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1868
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: VH03-05
Photo by William Pryor Floyd, dated 1868.
Text on the web page:
The Ice House Company, whose shop stood on Queen's Road Central, at the junction with Battery Path and Ice House Street, did not manufacture ice. The ice was harvested from iceburgs by The American Company and shipped to Hong Kong (source: Hong Kong - A Rare Photographic Record of the 1860s by Arthur Hacker). <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1968
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: VH03-37.
Photo by William Pryor Floyd, dated 1868.
Looks as it is an underground tank with grass on top, possibly similar to other tanks like the one on the Peak. On the right, it looks like an inlet for rainwater or the creeks visible on the 1866 map. <Read more ...>
I found this album in the University of Michigan Archives, said to be the last album William Pryor Floyd created in Hong Kong before he left. The views are all of the aftermath of the Typhoon of 23rd September 12874. <Read more ...>
