Photography - China, Hong Kong - A Merry Xmas and A Happy New Year from Hong Kong, tipped-in hand-


Photography - China, Hong Kong - A Merry Xmas and A Happy New Year from Hong Kong, tipped-in hand-scrivened manuscript title label, 1936 and onward, b/w annotated views and images of domestic cultural and social life, manners and customs, including Chinese Processions/Jubilee 1936, Views from the Peak, Lyemun Pass and junks, transport and main streets, Temples, Street Dentist, Sew-Sew, Water Villages, Fishing Boats by Moonlight, The H.K. & Shanghai Bank, Chinese Methodist Church, The Cathedral, Supreme Court, Wellington & Victoria Bks, Wanghai, Jubilee Night, King's Birthday Parade 1936, Arrival of H.E. the Governor, the T.B. Hospital, various other architecture, Knife Grinder, Portable Grocery, Chow, rice paddies, children with lice, panoramas of Hong Kong harbour by day and night, The Cenotaph, The Stands - Happy Valley Racecourse, etc., further scenes of native domestic and Colonial life, a few informal images of life at sea, a sojourn and Malta, the majority of contents Chinese/Oriental, contemporary leather rounded rectangular album, oblong 4to, [1 album of approx. 255]


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