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Title
View of water front houses in Hong Kong (Tea Houses in Shanghai?), China, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a view of water front houses in Hong Kong (Tea Houses in Shanghai?), China, ca.1900. Two-story pagoda-style houses are shown across the width of the image. At their base, pedestrians can be seen lingering near the gaurd-rails that extend with the pier over the still water beneath.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : negative, photographic print, b&w
9 x 10 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m30599
USC-1-1-1-14111 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-12282
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30599
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-12282.jpg
Subject
Architecture, Domestic--China
Chinese
Waterfronts
China
Recreational facilities
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
British Empire
political areas: Hong Kong
Source
1-222- [Microfiche number]
12282 [Accession number]
CHS-12282; unid-247 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 247 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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