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Home for the blind in Kaulun

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2021-11-07 02:01
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1902

Source University of Southern California (Calisphere), Date Created 1901-1903

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Note: A-30.102: "Blindenheim in Kowloon (Hildesheim)."; Note translation: A-30.102: "Home for the blind in Kowloon (Hildesheim)." 

Merry Christmas 1900

Submitted by christoph on Fri, 2011-12-23 22:21
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1900
Places shown in this photo: 
Home for the Blind [1902-????]

"Under the Christmas tree at the home for the blind in Hongkong (China)"

"Unterm Weihnachtsbaum im Blindenheim in Hongkong (China)"

Postcard published by: Verlag des Missionshauses, Barmen

Home for the Blind - 1903

Submitted by christoph on Tue, 2011-07-05 13:20
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1903
Places shown in this photo: 
Home for the Blind [1902-????]

An early Photo of the Home for the Blind in Kowloon in To Kwa Wan, Kowloon. A new wing was added in 1906.

Home for the Blind - Time Capsule

Submitted by christoph on Tue, 2011-07-05 00:38
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1902
Places shown in this photo: 
Home for the Blind [1902-????]

The foundation stone of the "Home for the Blind" contained in a time capsule the picture on display. (scan from the book: Schwester Martha Postler; Hamburg 1909)

Home for the Blind - First Building

Submitted by christoph on Tue, 2011-07-05 00:24
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1897
Places shown in this photo: 
Home for the Blind [1902-????]

"Hildesheim Mission for the Blind" - first location

The picture shows the first "Home For The Blind" in the Western District in 1897. I do not have any hint about the exact location. In 1900 the blind girls and their teachers, Fräulein Postler and Fräulein Reinicke of the "Hildesheim Mission to the Blind", moved to Macao due to an outbreak of the Beriberi disease.

They returned to their new home in Kowloon in 1902.

Home for the Blind

Submitted by christoph on Sat, 2011-06-11 16:07
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1902
Places shown in this photo: 
Home for the Blind [1902-????]

Thanks tngan; I just found:

"The China Mail" reports on the opening ceremony in the edition on Friday, August 15, 1902. The headline goes: "Blind Asylum at Mataukok".

So I think, I should move the marker more to the north (?) and seaward.

Home for the Blind

Submitted by christoph on Sat, 2011-06-11 01:08
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1916
Places shown in this photo: 
Home for the Blind [1902-????]

Home for the Blind in Kowloon

The house was founded by the "Hildesheimer Blindenmission", Germany;  "Hildesheim Mission for the Blind". It is an early forerunner of what is todays "Ebenezer School & Home for the Visually Impaired" in Pokfulam. The lot of land was donated by Queen Voctoria in 1901.

Home for the Blind [1902-????]

Submitted by christoph on Sat, 2011-06-11 01:06
Date Place completed: 
1902-01-01

This marker is only a guess for the "Home for the Blind" in Kowloon. The house was founded by the "Hildesheimer Blindenmission", Germany;  "Hildesheim Mission for the Blind". It is an early forerunner of what is todays "Ebenezer School & Home for the Visually Impaired" in Pokfulam. The lot of land was donated by Queen Voctoria in 1901.

Can anyone help with the localisation? My marker is only a guess.

I read in a missionary report that the "Home for the Blind" in Kowloon was located 7 minutes by foot on a hill above the village To Kwa Wan.

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