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Everything tagged "1910s Hong Kong"

Beach of North Point c 1910

text on Flickr: Old North Point, tram track can be seen along the long gone beach.

 

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

Dutch community in Hong Kong, 1919

Charles worked at Holland-China Trading Company in 1939. Twenty years earlier, Bob de Vries' father worked for HCHC in Hong Kong. This photo shows members of the Dutch community at the time.

Original caption reads: "Hong Kong 1919 - - Members of the Netherlands community in Hong Kong. Notice the shortage of women!" An arrow indicates 'Pa', Dutch for dad.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1919

Hong Kong, Braeside & British Military Hospital, ca. 1910

Dear reader,

Can you please help to identify these buildings on The Peak?

Kind regards,

Pieter

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

c.1916 Thomas Cecil Glendinning

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1916

c.1916 Thomas Cecil Glendinning

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1916

Postcard Hong Kong; Happy Valley during a Race Meeting. Hongkong.

Dear reader,

Please enjoy this 1910s photo of the Happy Valley race course. Charles' colleague Frits Kien describes how cleaning department staff won the first prize one year, you can find the story in the original Flickr page.

Kind regards,

Pieter

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

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; 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

Postcards Hong Kong wrapper; map of Hong Kong

Dear reader,

Can you please advise me about the year in which this map was made?

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

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