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- Black and white Hong Kong transformed by ‘OldHKinColour’
- The Five Faces of Dr Walter Medhurst, D.D.
- Shanghai City Wall and Gates
- Visualizing Qing Diplomats in the West
- Ruins of Macau in Historical Photographs of China collection – part three
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Black and white Hong Kong transformed by ‘OldHKinColour’
The Instagram page OldHKinColour features vintage images of Hong Kong which have been colourised, or colourised and animated, with a view to promoting public education. HPC invited the team running the project, which has used some of our images, to … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs, Heritage, Uncategorized, Visualisation
Tagged colour, Harrison Forman, Hong Kong, Instagram, John Thomson
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1945: Facing the future
The caption is the photographer’s. Air Vice-Marshall Arthur Fiddament (1896-1976) took this Kodachrome colour slide in Chongqing, battered war-time capital of the Republic of China, on a whirlwind round the world trip in late 1945. They arrived in Kunming on … Continue reading
Posted in Digitisation, Photograph of the day
Tagged children, colour
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