The Ice House Company's shop, Hong Kong

The Ice House Company's shop, Hong Kong

Collection

Vacher-Hilditch

Identifier

VH03-05

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: VH03-05. Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution reference: L00381-003b. The Ice House Company, whose shop stood on Queen's Road Central, at the junction with Battery Path and Ice House Street, did not manufacture ice. The ice was harvested from iceburgs by The American Company and shipped to Hong Kong (source: 'Hong Kong - A Rare Photographic Record of the 1860s' by Arthur Hacker).

Caption in album or on mount

ICE HOUSE. (Hongkong.) / 3

Location

Hong Kong

Estimated Date

1868

Photographer

Floyd, William Pryor

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath

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