Mounted prints of North China Plain "agriculture", "people", "miscellaneous", and "travel", and possibly taken by [Ivy] Greaves.

Groups include: village congregation; family on cart; group "watching the visitors". Other people include: old and young villagers and countrymen; famine victims; Arnold Bryson; shepherd (with flock); Greaves. Activities featured include: sweeping up grain; storing the hay; harvesting wheat; putting...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/Box 13
Date(s) of creation: c.1915 - c.1940
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.15.10.05.086
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 13
callnumber CWM/LMS/15/10/05/086
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/15/10/05/086
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/15/10/05/086
prefix_number 086
scb_previous_numbers a)i, a)ii, a)iii, b)i, c)i, c(ii), c(iii), c(iv), c(v), c(vi), d)i, d)ii, d)iii, d)iv, e(i), e(ii), e)iii, e(iv)
title Mounted prints of North China Plain "agriculture", "people", "miscellaneous", and "travel", and possibly taken by [Ivy] Greaves.
scb_date_creation c.1915 - 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 148 black and white or sepia prints on 18 pieces of paper (2 prints appear to be missing from sheets 3 and 4)
format Archive
description Groups include: village congregation; family on cart; group "watching the visitors". Other people include: old and young villagers and countrymen; famine victims; Arnold Bryson; shepherd (with flock); Greaves. Activities featured include: sweeping up grain; storing the hay; harvesting wheat; putting grain into bags; grinding corn; threshing millet and corn; winnowing corn; irrigation on the banks of the Grand Canal; ploughing; "Enjoying a meal"; mending an iron pot; grinding maize flour; fishermen mending nets; women making fishing nets; "Taking the birds for an airing"; carrying baskets of apples; crossing a stream by raft; travel by mule-cart (starting out, loaded up, losing a wheel), including on the road in winter, crossing a "perilous" bridge, and through floods; mule drinking on journey; brick making; stamping foundations. Other places or buildings featured include: village threshing floor; North China road in spring; sunken road; village and city streets; village inn; city wall and pagoda; Sienning [Xianning]; camel back gate; around the Nankow Pass [Nankouzhen], including marble gateway on the way; the Great Wall; fisherman's shrine on the sea shore; "on the way to the cave of the Crouching Tiger"; the gap, Kuling [Guling]; "old wooden bridge"; Siaochang Church. Also includes: small and tall millet and millet stalks; the Tsangchow [Cangzhou] Buggie; grave mounds and shrines; rock called "brother-in-law"; ox-cart; sun-dried bricks. Some prints taken during [Arthur] Chirgwin's visit, 1938.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright possibly held by Council for World Mission
scb_file_number 86
scb_copies Duplicate of "old wooden bridge" and some among Chirgwin set in file 38
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0015.0010.0005.00086