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DM3263/1/48/4, from the Nigel Spry collection.

Developed by the Hong Kong History Centre and Special Collections at the University of Bristol, Historical Photographs of Hong Kong offers a rich visual history of Hong Kong, featuring images that span from the second half of the nineteenth century to the 1980s. These capture both the urban landscapes of central districts and the lives of residents and visitors there, and its rural worlds.

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Anthony Clark

33 photos 1920s - 1974

This collection contains a [1927] photograph album donated by Anthony (Tony) Clark during the active phase of the Historical Photographs of China project. The album was compiled by an unidentified of…

Joy Larkcom

1 photo 1946 - 1994

The Joy Larkcom Collection features 626 colour photographic slides (35mm transparencies) taken during her research trips to China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in 1985, and to Yunnan, China in 1994. The purp…

Leonard Street

22 photos 1960s

Leonard Arthur Street (1907-1993) was a missionary in China, 1930s to 1950. A collection of 35mm colour transparencies (slides) taken in China, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore, in c.1960s. Box of Chin…

Martin Funnell

40 photos 1950s-2003

Majority of this collection consists of panoramic black and white negatives, panoramic colour transparencies, 35mm negatives, 35mm slides, and a small number of prints. The rest of the collection inc…

Nigel Spry

375 photos 1960-1980 [gaps]

This collection consists of slides, photographs, negatives, books, personal documents, and archaeological reports relating to Hong Kong and Macau (Macao). A total of 2,720 colour photographic slides …

Penny Mellor

7 photos 1961

This collection consists of 8 Ektachrome 35mm colour transparencies (slides). Photographs by Penny Mellor, taken in Hong Kong, in September 1961. Historical Photographs of China ref: PM.

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