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1920s Hilly Hong Kong

Submitted by Herostratus on Wed, 2018-09-12 08:15

Published in the 1920s by Kelly & Walsh, with most of the pictures dating from the late 1920s. Includes three panoramas at the end. Click on the picture to zoom in. 

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Old Hong Kong Picture/Guide Books

Submitted by Herostratus on Wed, 2018-09-12 06:43

Various HK guide/picture books that I have scanned & uploaded:

Through Hong Kong with a Camera

Picturesque Hong Kong 1899

1953 Guide Book

Hilly Hong Kong

 

Picturesque Hong Kong 1899

Submitted by Herostratus on Fri, 2018-01-26 21:04

A book of coloured photographs by W Brewer & Co, dated late 1898 or early 1899, from the construction of the Queens Building and the buildings on Connaught Street near the Hong Kong Club. I have included the pictures of Macao and Canton for completeness. The titles of the photographs are how they were captioned in the book. Click on the picture to zoom in. 

More books can be found here

1953 Guide Book

Submitted by Herostratus on Tue, 2018-01-23 21:22

A small Guide Book published by the Hong Kong Government in 1953:

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Through Hong Kong with a Camera

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 2018-01-18 21:27

A book of photographs by J Arnold, published in 1916 in Middlesbrough by the printers Hood & Co Ltd. Most of the pictures seem to have been taken 1900-1910

The J Arnold photographs were published in at least one other book, Picturesque Hong Kong (1910), which can be seen in the HKU Library here. Many of the photographs were used in both books

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