View the original, larger copy of this image at the UWM website: http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsphoto/id/16595
The building in the background with the columns appears to be Zetland Masonic Hall. A photo here from 1945.
Date picture taken
1941
Gallery
Comments
That must be one of the last
That must be one of the last photos taken of the building before it was bombed during the Japanese occupation.
On Hing Terrace background
http://gwulo.com/node/22209 - On Hing Terrace is in the background. Could you add it as a "place" on this photo? Thanks,
The Photographer
David,
I realise that if you go to the source of this photo you see it is part of Harrison Forman's photos on HK but I was surprised that you did not mention that fact. The other surprise is that it seems that he did not take the actual photo as he is the photographer in the photo! Maybe he had a delayed action camera on a tripod which took the photo! Did they have them in 1940?
Ron
re: The Photographer
Hi Ron,
For a note that these are Harrison Forman's photos, please see "Gallery:" further up the page.
Good point about the delayed action. I'd guess he was out with other photographers and just handed his camera to one of them, but I'm not sure.
Regards, David
Re: Photographer
The whole HF collection is from here on... On page 2 of the collection, another photographer is on the roof-top of the same building.