Please note the new url for the Historical Photographs of China (HPC) project: https://www.hpcbristol.net/. This site is copied over once a month to our mirror site, which is hosted in Shanghai: https://www.hpcbristol.sjtu.edu.cn/. The latter site includes pages in Chinese.
Among the over 21,000 images on the HPC site, there are currently nearly 900 of Hong Kong, in particular in the following collections:
You can search for Hong Kong in the Location field in Advanced Search. Or search the site using a keyword/tag, e.g. Pedder.
More Hong Kong images are due to be added to the HPC site in 2020.
Gwulo's readers are very welcome to help identify street names, or people, or correct any mistakes etc, on the HPC site. You can add comments on any image details page (at the bottom right hand side of the page).Thank you!
Hong Kong images on Historical Photographs of China
Please note the new url for the Historical Photographs of China (HPC) project: https://www.hpcbristol.net/. This site is copied over once a month to our mirror site, which is hosted in Shanghai: https://www.hpcbristol.sjtu.edu.cn/. The latter site includes pages in Chinese.
Among the over 21,000 images on the HPC site, there are currently nearly 900 of Hong Kong, in particular in the following collections:
Eleanor Mitchell Collection https://www.hpcbristol.net/collections/mitchell-eleanor
Henry Rue Collection https://www.hpcbristol.net/collections/rue-henry
Francis Davidson Collection https://www.hpcbristol.net/collections/davidson-francis
Martin Funnell Collection https://www.hpcbristol.net/collections/funnell-martin.
Also there are Hong Kong images in these albums or book:
VH03 (photographs by William Floyd, 1860s) https://www.hpcbristol.net/search?query=VH03
BL05 (early 1950s) https://www.hpcbristol.net/search?query=BL05
Bk09 (Picturesque Hong Kong, 1924) https://www.hpcbristol.net/search?query=Bk09
JC01 (1920s) https://www.hpcbristol.net/search?query=JC01
NA15 (1874 typhoon) https://www.hpcbristol.net/search?query=NA15
NA18 (Storm damage, 1889) https://www.hpcbristol.net/search?query=NA18
NA21 (New Territory, 1901) https://www.hpcbristol.net/search?query=NA21
NA26 (Belilios Reformatory & HK panorama, c.1860) https://www.hpcbristol.net/search?query=NA26.
You can search for Hong Kong in the Location field in Advanced Search. Or search the site using a keyword/tag, e.g. Pedder.
More Hong Kong images are due to be added to the HPC site in 2020.
Gwulo's readers are very welcome to help identify street names, or people, or correct any mistakes etc, on the HPC site. You can add comments on any image details page (at the bottom right hand side of the page).Thank you!