Sujet

Central and Western parts of Hong Kong Harbour

Légende

Hong KongChina, View over the central and western front of Hong Kong harbour, looking north towards Kowloon.Original manuscript caption: "No. 10 Hong Kong 1903 The central and western part of harbour from Hong Kong. Note Kowloon in distance. Place the left hand edge of No 8 [1998/028/2/6] close to right hand edge of this picture - and the view of the harbour is almost continuous. Note right hand corner close to water a large square building, the HK HotelThis view shows about 1/3-1/2 of the city of Victoria.This view looks almost directly North- with Kowloon in distanceThe houses at R hand bottom corner are in Queens gardens- and the photographer stands alone half way up the hill- note from this distance (about 2 miles) the numerous large steamers moored in harbour- and remember that this is by no means as full as it often is- and also remember that you can only look at about half the area of the harbour- the mooring for all ships was beginning beyond the right hand edge of the photograph.", 1903. 1998/028/2/7.

Date

01 févr. 1903

Crédit

Photo12/Bristol Archives/UIG

Notre référence

UMG20A05_276

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

34,3Mo (2,1Mo) / 33,0cm x 26,0cm / 3893 x 3076 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Hong KongChina View over the central and western front of Hong Kong harbour looking north towards KowloonOriginal manuscript caption: "No 10 Hong Kong 1903 The central and western part of harbour from Hong Kong Note Kowloon in distance Place the left hand edge of No 8 [1998 028 2 6] close to right hand edge of this picture - and the view of the harbour is almost continuous Note right hand corner close to water a large square building the HK HotelThis view shows about 1 3-1 2 of the city of VictoriaThis view looks almost directly North- with Kowloon in distanceThe houses at R hand bottom corner are in Queens gardens- and the photographer stands alone half way up the hill- note from this distance (about 2 miles) the numerous large steamers moored in harbour- and remember that this is by no means as full as it often is- and also remember that you can only look at about half the area of the harbour- the mooring for all ships was beginning beyond the right hand edge of the photograph" 1903