Victoria Peak and residences, Hong Kong, China – Historic Reproduction
![Victoria Peak and residences, Hong Kong, China, Phila[delphia]: C.H. Graves c1902. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d0/d0c45d0390c5-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Victoria Peak and residences, Hong Kong, China. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Victoria Peak and residences, Hong Kong, China
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Victoria Peak, the steep hill rising above Hong Kong's harbor, is the subject of this stereograph, which also takes in a hotel and a fort on its slopes. By the early twentieth century the peak had become a retreat for British merchants and officials, who built houses there to escape the heat and crowding of the city below. They reached it by the Peak Tram, which had opened in 1888. Cards like this one, issued in Philadelphia for American viewers, let people at home look down on a distant colony from a height few of them would ever climb.
| Created / published | Phila[delphia]: C.H. Graves c1902. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H24473 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 111. The Universal Photo Art Co."" |
| Subjects | Hotels & taverns--China--Hong Kong--1900-1910. Forts & fortifications--China--Hong Kong--1900-1910. Mansions--China--Hong Kong--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 727 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-169370 |
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