Gallery: 1870s Hong Kong photos

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Gallery:

Title	Year
View looking West towards Central from Morrison Hill 1870s	1875
The Aberdeen Dock, destroyed by typhoon 22 Sep /74	1874
Introduction to Album by William Pryor Floyd	1874
1. Destruction of HMS Flamer & 2. Destruction Amongst the Shipping	1874
7&8. Stonecutters Island Looking West & North	1874
5. Destruction of the Canton Wharf & 6. Destruction of the Praya	1874
16. Yowmatee Looking North-East	1874
17. Yoomatee - Looking North	1874
18. A general View of Yowmatee	1874
19. Yowmatee - Showing General Wreck	1874
21. The Dockyard	1874
20. Yowmatee - Another View	1874
22. Damage to the Sugar Refinery	1874
15. Kowloon City - Looking North East	1874
Dedication Typhoon Album 23 September 1874	1874
9. Alaska Aground & 10. Another View of the Alaska	1874
13. Effects of the Typhoon at Sowkewan	1874
11. Ruins of Stanley - Looking North -East & 12. Stanley - Continuation of the Preceding View	1874
14. Further Destruction at Sowkewan	1874
3. Wrecked Junk & 4. Wreck of the Steamers Albay & Leonor	1874
Panorama of City from Bath House	1870s
VIC Praya from Cricket Ground looking West	1873
Looking West to Praya from Murray Pier	1879
Kowloon ca. 1879	1879
Hong Kong Panorama from Kowloon 1870's	1879
St. Joseph Chapel 1874	1874
Hotz collection: Hong Kong, Pokfulam Water Reservoir, ca. 1870	1870s
Hotz collection: Mandarin's Wife, by Lai Fong, ca. 1870	1870s
Hotz collection: Hong Kong, Central Praya, ca. mid 1870s	1870s
Hotz collection: Hong Kong Public Gardens, ca. 1870	1870s
Hotz collection: Hong Kong Opium Merchant, by Lai Afong, ca. 1870	1870s
Hotz collection: Hong Kong Happy Valley Race Course, ca. 1870	1870s
Hotz collection: Hong Kong, Victoria Hills and Causeway Bay, ca. 1870	1870s
Hotz collection: Hong Kong young woman (Tanka?), ca. 1870	1870s
Hotz collection: Hong Kong, Chinese Exhibition, 1873	1873
Hotz collection: Two Young Hong Kong women, ca. 1870	1870s
Hotz collection: Hong Kong, Central Praya, ca. 1870	1870s
Hotz collection: Fortune Telling, ca. 1870	1870s
Hotz collection: Guangzhou, Kin-Shan ca. 1870	1870s
Hotz collection: Hong Kong Guangzhou Merchants & Compradore, ca. 1870	1870s
c.1873 Parade Ground, City Hall & Cathedral	1873
1872 - Western man	1872
c.1875 - Two western men	1875
c.1872 - Mrs G. Holmes	1872
c.1872 - Mr G. Holmes	1872
1872 - Capt. M. Dought(y)?, 10th Regt.	1870s
Postcard Hong Kong; Chinese Barber in the Street; No. 644 Itinerant Barbers.	1870s
View of City from Mid-Levels	1870s
Building on Queen's Road Central c. 1870's?	1870s
1870's Sheung Wan	1875
Map of the LMS compound	1873
Naval Hospital	1873
1874 Detail.jpg	1874
Bonham Road & Centre Street looking West to Greenmount & Balls Court	1870s
Botanical Gardens and the Albany 1870	1870s
c.1875 Victoria	1875
James Legge at Corpus Christi College Oxford, 1876, after retirement from Hong Kong (1842-1873)	1876
St Joseph's Church c.1870s.jpg	1876
1875 Douglas Lapraik & Co. advert	1875
Murray Parade Ground mid 1870's	1875
View Looking east from Upper Woodlands Terrace in Mid-Levels	1875
Panorama of City from TST	1879
Panorama from above Conduit Road	1879
Hong Kong New Year card 1880s	1875
Robert or John Mitchell Dunlop, Hong Kong 1870s	1875
Tai Ping Shan Panorama	1870s
Westend 1870	1871
Western 0333 View from the Peak 1874 Lettered.jpg	1874
Hospital Road 1870s	1875
SS Alaska washed ashore by typhoon	1874
Damage from 1874 typhoon	1874
Seafront	1874
Central	1870s
View from Headquarters	1870s
Cumming HK 2 det Morrison Hill.jpg	1879
Looking west along the north shore	1879
Cumming 1 detail of City Hall.jpg	1879
Cumming HK 1 all.jpg	1879
Cumming HK 1 det left margin.jpg	1879
Cumming HK 1 detail.jpg	1879
Hong Kong Club building	1873
View of Victoria Gaol from above	1879
View over Central	1875
View along Queen's Road	1875
1874 Map of Central	1874
The Praya	1870s
old Wanchai School to the south of Seamen's Hospital	1873
Julian Pauncefote	1873
China Punch cartoon	1873
China Punch cartoon	1873
China Punch cartoon	1870s
China Punch cartoon	1873
China Punch cartoon	1873
1876 Sale of Inland Lot No. 82 - Augustine Heard & Co. Building	1876
Cosmopolitan Dock opens	1875
Typhone 1874	1874
1 Battery Path	1870s
1870 Praya Central (Des Voeux Road)	1870s
ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL 1ST LOCATION	1870s
1870s View of Victoria from Scandal Point	1870s

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