Panoramic view of the harbour showing naval facilities, Hong Kong (now Hong Kong, China)

People:

Unknown (photographer)

Title:

Panoramic view of the harbour showing naval facilities, Hong Kong (now Hong Kong, China)

Date:

1887 or before

Description:

- This photograph was taken from a point just above the Military Hospital, Wellington Battery and other naval facilities, looking northeast across the harbour, with the eastern Praya at centre right and East Point, Kellett Island and North Point in the background at centre ('Picturing Hong Kong', p. 14).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 20.8 x 25.9 cm secondary support: 27.3 x 37.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1984:1203:017

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

dated and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, l.l.: "Oct 29-/87."; and b.: "Hongkong-" numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink ?, on the sheet, verso, u.l.: "193" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph]

Location:

Hong Kong; China;

Subject:

architecture
military

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ships
harbour
naval base

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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