Display board: general China scenes

Display board with photographs of Chinese scenes. Captions include: "weighing silk" (on reverse: "silk from the South East Shansi. The silk will be used in the manufacture of textiles by the Chinese Industrial Co-operatives, Indusco, New York"); "street scene" (on reverse: Ministry of Information ca...

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Order number: MS 380815 Outsized
Date(s) of creation: 1944-1945
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: MS 380815 Outsized
Summary: Display board with photographs of Chinese scenes. Captions include: "weighing silk" (on reverse: "silk from the South East Shansi. The silk will be used in the manufacture of textiles by the Chinese Industrial Co-operatives, Indusco, New York"); "street scene" (on reverse: Ministry of Information caption explaining that photograph shows street scene in Kunming); "in a rice store" (on reverse: Ministry of Information caption explaining that photograph shows granary for workers in factory at Kweilin, Kwang-si Province); "in a tobacco factory" (on reverse: Ministry of Information caption explaining that photograph shows girls stemming tobacco leaves at Nanyang Brothers' Tobacco Co. plant at Chungking).
Extent: 1 display board (4 photographs)
Access status: Open
Copyright: Crown Copyright except for photograph labelled "Weighing silk", where copyright held by SOAS, University of London
Language: English
Finding aids: Handlist available
Format: Archive