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The Hong Kong Hotel on the Corner of Praya Central and Pedder Street

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The Hong Kong Hotel on the Corner of Praya Central and Pedder Street

10" x 8" (C2367)
Original albumen print. Photographer: Afong
Circa 1895

The hotel was expanded to six stories and re-opened in 1893. In the foreground is the recently reclaimed land on which Queen's Building and Prince's Building were shortly to be built.