This 1938 view looking up Pottinger Street carries the accompanying text: Endless colourful street scenes delight both residents and tourists in Hongkong. The terraced street in the view leads up toward the hilly district of Hongkong where in the distance there is a portion of the Peak.
The photographer is identified as A.H. Buchman. I feel that this is most likely to be Alexander H. Buchman (1911-2003), Chicago-born aeronautical engineer, photographer, socialist and Trotsky admirer. Alex Buchman lived in Shanghai for 6 years between 1933 and 1939, where he became well-known for his still and motion picture photography, which documented, among other things, the Sino-Japanese hostilities of the day. After Shanghai, Buchman journeyed to Coyoacán, Mexico where he became acclaimed for his informal and revealing everyday images of Trotsky at home with his entourage.