Hidden details in historic Hong Kong photos revealed in Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell Volume 2

In the first volume of Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, local historian David Bellis highlighted surprising details in a range of historic images that revealed much about the time and place they were taken. The photos, selected from the more than 15,000 images on his photo blog Gwulo: Old Hong Kong, included close-ups of the devastation caused by a typhoon in 1906 and a “rat bin” in a market during the plague outbreak in the 1930s, among many others. What’s in a...

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