People and places in East Mongolia and Yunnan, Chekiang [Zhejiang], Shantung [Shandong], Kiangsi [Jiangxi], Suiyuan, Peking [Beijing], Hupeh [Hubei], and Hunan provinces.

Prints have detailed printed information on their backs. Groups include: White Miaos, women in sedge hats (Tali [Dali]), "Mingchia" girls, Yunnan; Mongolian ladies in holiday costume. Other people include: Yunnan woman at needle-work; old man with fleshy appendix (near Jehol [Chengde]); Miao denizen...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/Box 8
Date(s) of creation: c.1930
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.15.10.02.041
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 8
callnumber CWM/LMS/15/10/02/041
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/15/10/02/041
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/15/10/02/041
prefix_number 041
title People and places in East Mongolia and Yunnan, Chekiang [Zhejiang], Shantung [Shandong], Kiangsi [Jiangxi], Suiyuan, Peking [Beijing], Hupeh [Hubei], and Hunan provinces.
scb_date_creation c.1930
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 56 sepia or black and white prints
format Archive
description Prints have detailed printed information on their backs. Groups include: White Miaos, women in sedge hats (Tali [Dali]), "Mingchia" girls, Yunnan; Mongolian ladies in holiday costume. Other people include: Yunnan woman at needle-work; old man with fleshy appendix (near Jehol [Chengde]); Miao denizen of the mountains. Other activities featured include: shutting up "devils" in a "paling" and passing under the "curtain of good luck" (Mongolian festivals); boatmen plying on the Yellow River [Huang]; fishing on the Chungyang and Yangtze [Chang] rivers, Kiangsi; music training and lancing in Tsinan [Jinan] Prison; "small fairs" along the Lan River; boatmen having noon meal. Other places or buildings featured include: the Burmese Road; jetty at Futoshan [Putuo Shan]; Chefoo [Yantai]; Kuling [Guling] (Lu Shan); "wells in quartet, Niulanshan"; suburbs of Peking; Lake Hsuanwu, South Gate Main Street, and village school in the suburbs, Nanking [Nanjing]; a "honey shop"; Taishan, Shihtao [Shidao], outside the walls of Chowtsun, and Yungchengwan fishing village (Shantung); Chinese restaurant; site of Huanghaolou (Yellow Crane Pavilion), Wuchang; Hsingan (Hunan); Changsha; Huaishui Canal; Liukungtao, Weihaiwei [Weihai]; Hankow [Hankou] Bund; Stone Bell Hill (Kiangsi); Kupeikou [Gubeikou]; Paotouchen [Paotow (Baotou)]; Laichow [Ye Xian] streets (paved with mill stones); Poshan [Boshan]. Also includes: cowhide rafts; "Niangniangwei" (charm attached to child); ferry on Yellow River; windlass on a raft; Chinese bean noodles; sign-boards and sign-plates; painted boats; palanquin on ponies' back; "Wutaifu" pine trees; boats with square canvas sails; vane-pennants.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright held by ATO Photographic Association
scb_file_number 41
scb_copies Some references to volume numbers so possible that photographs were published
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0015.0010.0002.00041