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Tiger Balm Garden, vices and virtues.jpg

Submitted by Lai Wah Dewson on Wed, 2020-12-30 03:22
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1957

As part of his aim to strengthen the cultural identity of Hong Kong's Chinese residents, many of the colourful scenes in the gardens depicted myths and legends associated with vices and virtues.

Philip Harding Klimanek and his son Reginald riding horses, Shanghai, ca. 1933

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2020-10-18 22:31

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today].

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1933
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A Day at the Races

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Wed, 2020-09-16 15:58

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today].

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1933
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A Day at the Races

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2020-09-13 02:20

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today].

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1933
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