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On board a pole junk anchored at Hong Kong
On board a pole junk anchored at Hong Kong. The photographer is looking forward from the port side of the poop showing the stowed mainsail covered with matting. The foresail has been unshipped. Washing is hanging on bamboo poles in the waist. The photographer's ship was at Hong Kong in the periods 6 to 28 May 1937, 14 October 1937 to 8 January 1938, 14 April to 4 June 1938 and 8 to 12 September 1938. Negatives numbers P34432 to P34436 inclusive were all taken on board the same junk.
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Object Details
| ID: | P34432 |
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| Type: | Rolled film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Waters, David Watkin |
| Places: | China |
| Vessels: | Pole type |
| Date made: | 1937-1938 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waters Collection |