Miscellaneous mounted prints

Includes town and street scenes. Groups include: flood and famine victims; stilt walkers. Other people include: a blind fortune-teller; girl carrying her baby brother; a "passing traveller"; blind girls carrying water; the "stilt merchant". Events featured include: demonstration of the merchants' un...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/Box 5
Date(s) of creation: c.1905 - c.1940
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.15.10.01.023
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/Box 5
callnumber CWM/LMS/15/10/01/023
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/15/10/01/023
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/15/10/01/023
prefix_number 023
scb_previous_numbers u(i), u(ii), u(iii), u(iv), u(v), u(vi), u(vii), u(viii), u(ix)
title Miscellaneous mounted prints
scb_date_creation c.1905 - c.1940
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 52 black and white and sepia prints/postcards on 9 pieces of paper (2 prints appears to be missing from sheets)
format Archive
description Includes town and street scenes. Groups include: flood and famine victims; stilt walkers. Other people include: a blind fortune-teller; girl carrying her baby brother; a "passing traveller"; blind girls carrying water; the "stilt merchant". Events featured include: demonstration of the merchants' union; a "celebration". Other activities featured include: a peep-show; reading the news pinned up on walls; a wayside meal; shoeing a mule; "drama on fair day". Other places featured include: grain market; the courtyard of an inn; potteries; a street in Canton [Guangzhou]; a dyers shop, Hangchow [Hangzhou]. Also includes: a paper horse-rider for funerals; wall advertisements; flood relief huts; water well; hair-styles; Chinese coins; paper houses and decorations.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright possibly held by Council for World Mission
scb_file_number 23
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0015.0010.0001.00023