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A rare photographic album of Hong Kong, consisting of twenty-four sepia-toned photogravures with descriptive text, and of 28 text pages. This photobook offers a rare glimpse into the 1920s period . The photographic reproductions includes "queen Victoria stature, cenotaph and Hong Kong club", "Chinese temple, new territories", "Hong Kong harbour, and Tsin sha tsui, from Bowen road", "happy valley and race course from Stubbs road", "Chinese vegetable hawker", "Rickshaw coolie, the peak", "Causeway bay from repulse bay road", "the courts of justice", "junks in Hong Kong harbour. Lyemun pass in the distance", "part of Chinese wedding procession", and others.
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