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Postcard Hong Kong; Hongkong. Residences about Midway between the Peak and the City.

Dear reader,

Please find some interesting comments about post-WW II housing in the comments to my photo on Flickr.

Kind regards,

Pieter

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1910

Postcard Hong Kong - Hong Kong View from the Cricket Ground, 1905

Dear reader,

Do you know where the old cricket fields were located in Hong Kong?

Kind regards,

Pieter

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1905

Postcard Chinese Wedding Procession, 1930s

Dear reader,

Where in Hong Kong could this photo be taken?

Kind regards,

Pieter

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930

Postcard Hong Kong; Chinese Barber in the Street; No. 644 Itinerant Barbers.

This is a 1910s postcard with a photo which appears to be from the 1870s (for details please see the Flickr caption).

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1870

portrait of Hong Kong comprador Tong Lai Chuen, Holland-China Trading Company, ca. 1908

Dear reader,

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1908

Postcard Hong Kong; Greetings from Hongkong Chinese Fortune Teller

Dear reader,

Please visit Flickr and read the caption to the photo. It has some background on the work fortune tellers did in China a century ago.

If you can help with translating the Chinese text on the table cloth, I would appreciate it very much.

Kind regards,

Pieter Lommerse

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1910

Chinese craftsman with a group of young spectators, ca. 1910

Dear reader,

Could this be somewhere in Hong Kong? Have you seen this scene before?

Kind regards,

Pieter

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1910

Village in the Hong Kong area, ca. 1910

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1910

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