Waterfront, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.

1868/1871.

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion, stereograph ; glass approximately 10.5 x 21.5 cm (4 x 8 in.)

Bears Thomson's negative number: "51"

This is one of a collection of original glass negatives made by John Thomson. The negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921

William Schupbach, 'Focusing on history in Hong Kong', Wellcome Library blog, 16 December 2013 https://wayback.archive-it.org/16107/20210313030558/http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2013/12/focusing-on-history-in-hong-kong/ ("A few minutes walk downhill in Thomson’s time took one to the fields near the waterfront where the new City Hall building had sprung up in the year of Thomson’s arrival in 1868. The City Hall was demolished in 1933 and a new headquarters building for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank was built on the site, opening in 1935. That building was in turn demolished and replaced in 1985 by Norman Foster's new HSBC building")

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