This Carl Smith card relates to my earlier post about the purchase by my great-grandfather, John Olson, in 1882 of three houses in Wa In Fong Street East and West as an investment. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1910
[Updated location to Quarry Bay, and date to c.1910-12, see comments below.]
Street in Shaukiwan, Hong Kong, c.1910-1913. Image from the Historical Photographs of China web site (www.hpcbristol.net), HPC ref HR01-142. Link: https://www.hpcbristol.net/visual/hr01-142. Signs for: ENTRANCE TO THE TAIKOO RECREATION GROUND and FOOK WAH COMPRADORE. Note the rat bin on the lamp post on the right. <Read more ...>
Charles Gesner van der Voort had started his career in Rotterdam, at Holland-China Trading Company (HCHC). In 1938, he went to Shanghai for the firm. The Japanese interned him, and most other Dutch nationals, from 1943-45. In camp, he met his wife Nancy and they married after the war. After a leave in The Netherlands, they returned to the Orient, where Charles continued to work for HCHC in Hong Kong. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
