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Text on Flickr:
from the book A Selective Collection of Hong Kong Historic Postcards. Notice the lamp post on the left, with a hanging box to collect dead rats, due to an outbreak of plague.
Date picture taken
1920 (year is approximate)
Gallery
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Re: Postcard
Other versions of the postcard are titled Sampan Street, Hong Kong, Spring Garden and Sampan Street (Spring Garden Lane). As Sampan Street is L-shaped, I think one is looking east at Sampan Street from Spring Garden Lane.