Hong Kong Gallery

Hong Kong street scene, 1890s C016/4499

Hong Kong street scene. Pedestrians, carts, rickshaws and signs in both Chinese script and English on a hill street in Hong Kong in the 1890s. At the time, this area was a British colony. This lantern slide, by US explorer and survey photographer William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), was obtained for the World's Transportation Commission, a worldwide survey carried out for the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago, USA. The lantern slides in this collection were hand-coloured with dyes and paints. Here, the areas at far right and left have not been coloured

© LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Asia, China, Hong Kong, Kowloon, Wong Tai Sin District, Diamond Hill area. Jumble

Asia, China, Hong Kong, Kowloon, Wong Tai Sin District, Diamond Hill area. Jumble of multicolored koi carp form a colorful pattern in the Blue Pond of the Nan Lian Garden

© Charles Crust / DanitaDelimont.com

Asia, Blue Pond, C Ulture, Carp, Chaotic, Charles Crust, China, Chinese, Classical, Color, Colorful, Confuse, Confusion, Diamond Hill, Fish, Frantic, Garden, Hectic, Hong Kong, Jumble, Koi, Kowloon, Lake, Multi Color, Nan Lian, Pattern, Swim, Swimming, Traditional, Turmoil, Wat Phananchoeng, Wong Tai Sin

View over Hong Kong from Victoria Peak, the illuminated skyline of Central sits below The Peak

View over Hong Kong from Victoria Peak, the illuminated skyline of Central sits below The Peak, Victoria Peak, Hong Kong, China, Asia

© Gavin Hellier

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