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Digital Repository@HKUL

Digital Repository@HKUL

DigitalRepository@HKUL is a gateway for the discovery of digitized materials from HKUL and individuals/organizations that have participated in partner projects with the Libraries. This platform provides public access to a wide range of information, including historical and primary source materials to support the teaching and learning activities of HKU faculty and students, enhance scholarship and research. Digitized collections consist of photographs, manuscripts, posters, audio-visual recordings as well as other archival material from the Libraries’ rare and special collections.

Highlighted collections​

Hong Kong Image Database​

The Hong Kong Image Database is a digital collection of historical images documenting the Hong Kong experience from the 1840s through to the 1990s. The Database features a wealth of images of Hong Kong, including people, landscapes, infrastructures, villages, agriculture and fisheries activities, industrial settings, housing, buildings, panoramas, and more. The Libraries unlocks this digital vault of historic images with rich metadata and makes them freely available for public consultation.

Frank Fischbeck Collection​

The Frank Fischbeck Collection consists of a number of photographic formats that comprise albumen prints, silver gelatin prints, historic panorama prints, B&W and colour photographs, negatives, slides, transparencies and glass plates, which provide a visual record of the Hong Kong story from 1860 to the 2000s. The Collection embodies a broad array of photographic material covering the vast expanse of heritage, culture, traditions and religions across Hong Kong and Asia.

China and Far East Through Western Eyes​

China and Far East Through Western Eyes provides open access to full text historical books from HKUL’s rare collections. The strength of this collection is China studies including multidisciplinary work, spanning history, culture and custom, religion, philosophy, geography, politics, literature, arts and sciences. These materials were chiefly accounts of Western foreigners and Jesuit missionaries who experienced China in the eighteenth-century to the early twentieth century, written mainly in English, but also French, German, Dutch, and Portuguese. This collection also includes some historical publications relating to other Asian countries like Japan, Korea and Indochina, where these places were also points of interests along Westerners’ travel route to China in the nineteenth century.