Display boards: UK Government

Display boards with photographs relating to China. Crown Copyright notices on the reverse indicates that the photographs originated from the UK Government. Captions include: "Nutritional Aid Council. (1) To educate the public to use the soya bean milk for children and in proper diet, clinics have be...

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Order number: MS 380815 Outsized
Date(s) of creation: c1939-c1950
Level: Sub-series
Format: Archive           

Order number: MS 380815 Outsized
Summary: Display boards with photographs relating to China. Crown Copyright notices on the reverse indicates that the photographs originated from the UK Government. Captions include: "Nutritional Aid Council. (1) To educate the public to use the soya bean milk for children and in proper diet, clinics have been set up for the poor free of charge with practically free bean powder milk given"; "Nutritional Aid Council. (2) Food shop. This picture shows a mother feeding her two children with bean milk and bean cakes in the food shop" (2 copies); "Nutritional Aid Council. (4) Bean milk is given to school children in the mornings at cost price"; "Nutritional Aid Council. (5) This young baby's mother died when she was seven months old ... She was brought to the Council's clinic and given free bean milk"; "Peipei, Szechwan. A small town 65 miles north of Chungking on the Chialing river" (2 copies); "National Fuhtan University, Peipei, Szechwan. Students at work"; "Chungking. An evening scene looking over the River Chialing from a height"; "Siangtan, Hunan. On the platform of the railway station"; "Yuhua Cotton Mills, Chungking. One of the mill girls at work"; "The Co-operative Printing Plant, Chengtu, Szechwan. A printer setting type"; "The exterior of a theatre in Chengtu, Szechwan"; "Plays in the Street. (2) This picture shows the actors on the stage"; "Wang Hsia-chun, a famous Chinese actor known in the Chinese theatre as 'Monkey Wang'"; "Kunming, Yunnan. Kunming Bank Building"; "National Southwest Associated University, Kunming. Students leaving a classroom after a lecture" (2 copies); "A gate into an old walled city in Southern Huna"; "Picture taken in Szechwan ... Lengths of noodles stretched out to dry in the sun" (2 copies); "The road leading into Ningtu, Kiangsu"; "Kwangchang, Kiangsi. Geese and washing"; "Women clothing menders sit on the side of one of Chungking's streets mending clothing"; "Evening sun over the paddy fields at Siangtan, Hunan"; "View from the Chungking-Chengtu highway, a few miles west of Koloshan"; "A farmer ploughs a paddy field with a plough drawn by a water buffalo"; "A bamboo house being built".
Extent: 28 display boards (28 photographs)
Access status: Open
Copyright: Crown Copyright
Language: English
Finding aids: Handlist available
Format: Archive