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Tag Archives: football
Flooding in China
This winter will be remembered in the UK for extensive flooding. Floods in China are on a vastly different scale, the Yellow River having the solemn sobriquet ‘China’s Sorrow’. There are many photographs of various floods in HPC collections. It … Continue reading
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Tagged flood, flooding, football, Tientsin
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A game of two halves
Football can also bring photograph collections together. In 2008, an enigmatic album of photos collected by Harold Edwards Peck, a policeman in the Shanghai Municipal Police, was lent to the Historical Photographs of China project and digitised. Two years later, … Continue reading
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Tagged ball, coincidence, colleague, football, leisure, Municipal, Peck, Police, score, serendipity, Shanghai, SMP, soccer, Sullivan
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