Buildings on the waterfront at Hong Kong

Buildings on the waterfront at Hong Kong

This is the coast street in Hong Kong in the 1860s. The huge U-shaped building in the right foreground is Dent Company which made significant profits in the opium trade. The oldest church in Hong Kong, St. John’s Cathedral, is visible in the background on the left. The first office of the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank and Jardine, Matheson & Company were also on this street. It was the center of commerce and finance in Hong Kong. A party of Frenchmen en route to observe a transit of Venus across the sun left Marseille on August 16, 1874 and stopped at Hong Kong around September 20 on their way to Japan.==Date:unknown, Place:Hong Kong, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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  • 1900/12/31 00:19:00
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