Hong Kong Government Reports Online

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Hong Kong Government Reports Online (HKGRO) is a full-text image database providing online access to pre-World War II issues of four major government publications, namely, Administrative Report, Hong Kong Sessional Papers, Hong Kong Hansard and Hong Kong Government Gazette. It contains a wide range of information, such as official notifications, proceedings of the Legislative Council, statistics, and reports of government departments and special committees, which are essential to students and scholars in conducting research on Hong Kong.

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Gwu lo' is roughly how '古老' sounds in Cantonese. It means 'ancient' or 'old-fashioned'. gwulo.com/

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Jons Jakobsson aka John Olson (1838–1918) www.thehongkonglegacy.com/ An inspiring story

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chp.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Collection_Warren_Swire.php G. Warren Swire (1883-1949), was a partner in his father's firm, John Swire & Sons Ltd, from 1904 onwards. If you have access you can find a biographical account in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on Swire. Every year a director of the firm went 'out East' to visit the company's subsidaries in China, which were run by Butterfield & Swire (Taikoo, 太古公司). Taikoo's biggest subsidiary was the China Navigation Company (太古航業公司). Between 1906 and 1940 Swire made regular visits (including: 1906-7, 1911-12, 1919-20, 1923-24, 1928-29, 1933-34, 1938, 1940). 'G.W.S.' was a keen and proficient photographer, and his photographs seemed to have been taken with the aim of constructing a visual aide memoire of the infrastructure of Taikoo's activities in China. In this collection you will find photographs of company ships, godowns (warehouses), offices, wharves, and the bunds and harbour facilities in which Taikoo operated in coastal and riverine China. Activities in China were tightly managed from London, and it is probably with that pattern of control in mind, that Swire took these photographs. They offer a systematic survey of the infrastructure of the treaty ports, and of the activities of a foreign firm within them, and in that sense offer an unusual survey of China's port cities.

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tinyurl.com/69k44od Historical Photographs of China- project aims to locate, archive, and disseminate photographs .

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gwulo.com/image/tid/557 Photos of Hong Kong C1940s