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[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0068]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Public buildings in Hong Kong, such as this courthouse, are sandbagged against emergency. Note double-deck trolley car."
Date: January 8, 1941
Creator: Associated Press
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0244.0114]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Three former American GI's William a. Cowart, Dalton, GA., Lewis W. Griggs, Jacksonville, TX., and Otho G. Bell, Olympia, WA., left to right, who elected to stay in Red China after the Korean War crossed the border between Red China and Hong Kong Sunday."
Date: July 11, 1955
Creator: Associated Press
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0070]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Hong Kong's new $29.8 million railway terminal, top, replaces the familiar clock tower station, below, at Kowloon, across the harbor from Hong Kong Island."
Date: December 28, 1975
Creator: Associated Press
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0067]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is a general view of Hong Kong harbor, looking across to Kowloon Peninsula on China's mainland a quarter-mile away."
Date: January 8, 1941
Creator: Associated Press
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0071]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The British crown colony of Hong Kong is one of the principal targets of Japan's savage warfare in the east. Malay and its oil, and the strategic importance of Hong Kong have proved irresistible to the Nipponese. In the foreground of this picture is the city of Victoria, where are located most of the government, business and residential sections. Across the bay is the city of Kowloon, where oceangoing ships tie up."
Date: unknown
Creator: Associated Press
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0036]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "China's Marilyn Monroe is winsome Liu Chi. The comely Asian actress poses on the set of the film "Tradition" being made in Hong Kong, last production point of non-communist China movies."
Date: October 11, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0275]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The doors to China are beginning to open to more than a select few American citizens for the first time since the Communists came to power in 1949. But analysts in this listening post caution that the opening is going to be a very gradual and limited one."
Date: April 28, 1971
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0065]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here is a view from the opposite direction from the one above. It's as Victoria appears to a Japanese artilleryman from the Kowloon peninsula across the bay."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0060]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A Tokyo Imperial Army Headquarters Report Today said that severe Engagements between British and Japanese forces took place in the vicinity of the Happy Valley Race course (Above) in the battle of Hong Kong."
Date: December 21, 1941
Creator: Associated Press
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1339.0545]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Vietnamese refugees hang banners appealing for aid from the sides of the freighter Huey Fong anchored about a mile outside Hong Kong waters Wednesday."
Date: December 28, 1978
Creator: Associated Press
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society