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853285
  • Title
    Item 08: Postcards and photographs of cities and towns in China, S-Z, ca. 1910-1920 / from the papers of George Ernest Morrison
  • Call number
    PXA 207/vol. 2
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    ca. 1910-1920
  • Type of material
    Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera
  • Reference code
    853285
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    206 postcards and 91 photographic prints - black and white, colour
  • Scope and Content
    Shanghai
    87 postcards (pp. 1-29)

    Szemao
    34 photographs (pp. 32-65)
    p.32. The Mekong at Kenghung.
    p.33. Women mourners in funeral procession at Szemao.
    p.34. Men of “Yao” tribe: photo taken near I. pang [I Bang], Chinese Shan States.
    p.35. “Meeting the Spring” festival. Silk flags carried in procession at Szemao.
    p.36. The Great “Bawd Budd” Chinese-Shan Temple. Hole in breast made by Chinese thieves, in hope of getting any gold or precious stones put inside idol by the Shan priests.
    p.37. Horse-thief in cage (chan-lung) at Szemao. Note Tibetans in the background.
    p.38. “Noria” or waterwheel at work: photo taken at Meng-Hai, west of Kenghung.
    p.39. [image is missing]
    p.40. Notables of Szemao city carrying idol in procession.
    p.41. Shan girls at play: P’ut’eng (Meng Hing), south of Szemao. [“Pa-I” Shans playing at the love-game of throwing coloured balls]
    p.42. Caravan ponies crossing the NamLam River: Burma-Yunnan frontier.
    p.43. “Black” Shans. Village near Mekong: Chinese Shan States. [“He Pa-I” or Black-skirted Shans]
    p.44. “Chia Kaura” girl in gala costume: village west of the Mekong: Chinese Shan States.
    p.45. Typical Yunnan Bridge: Szemao Western onburbo.
    p.46. Ferry on the Mekong at Kenghung.
    p.47. Wild Wa Women: in the Menglien (Muong Len) market: Burma-Yunnan frontier.
    p.48. Akk’a woman and primitive loom: Chinese Shan States.
    p.49. Yunnanese Village girls: market at Szemao.
    p.50. Pack mules of Yunnan: a part of Szemao city wall
    p.51. “Yao” women: Tonkin-Yunnan frontier. (scene: market street, I Wu)
    p.52. “Hsiang Tan” Lolos of the Chinese Shan States [I Wu].
    p.53. Akka woman: Ping-t’ou, or Level head, variety. Chinese Shan States.
    p.54. Shans of Meng Lang, near Szemao.
    p.55. “Hua Yao Pa I”: Shan girls of Hsaio Meng Yang, near Kenghung.
    p.56. Tibetans at Szemao. (Dr Augustine Henry stooping in background)
    p.57. Iron suspension bridge, near Talang: South West Yunnan.
    p.58. Shan Temple at Meng Lang: between Szemao and the Mekong. [Chen Le-Pa]
    p.59. Wild Wa men in the market at Menglien (Muong Len) Burma-Yunnan frontier.
    p.60. Simple contrivance for hulling grain, used in the Chinese Shan States. [A rice-skinner]
    p.61. Simple contrivance for hulling grain, used in the Chinese Shan States. [A rice-skinner]
    p.62. Shan House: Yunnan-Tonkin frontier.
    p.63. Legs! Mahe women of Szemao watching the performers at the military examination. Note: those wearing aprons are married: queue is altered on birth of first child.
    p.64. My Lady the elephant and her offspring – belonging to the T’ussu of Liu shun (ie Saobwa of Meng Pang, near Szemao) – pay a ceremonial visit to Szemao.
    p.65. My Lady the Elephant (Property of T’ussu of Menglien, ie Saobwa of Muong Len)

    Tientsin
    30 postcards (pp. 68-81)

    Yangtze River
    12 photographs (pp. 83-86)

    Yunnan City
    12 photographs (pp. 88-99)
    p.88. View in Yunnan city
    p.89. View in Yunnan city
    p.90. The Pagoda of Yunnan city 250 ft high
    p.91. Residence of Wong the banker in Yunnan city
    p.92. The Big East Gate of Yunnan city
    p.93. Soldiers on the wall of Yunnan city
    p.94. The Mission of the missions of Etrangeres de Paris Yunnan city
    p.95. Confucian temple in Yunnan city
    p.96. View in Yunnan city
    p.97. Memorial in temple of the Goddess of Mercy near Talifu
    p.98. Temple near Yunnan city
    p.99. The Telegraph offices in Yunnan city

    Yunnan Province
    30 postcards (pp. 101-110)
    Voyage de M. Beau, Gouverneur general de l'Indo-Chine au Yunam.

    Miscellaneous
    59 postcards and 33 photographs (pp. 112-148)

    Chihli (6 postcards), Sungkiang (7 postcards), Soochow (5 postcards), Nanking (10 postcards), Kiangse (4 postcards), Hankow (6 postcards and 2 photographs), Ichang (1 postcard and 24 photograph), Mission Warocque (20 postcards) & Port Arthur (7 photographs).
  • System of arrangement
    Arranged alphabetically by geographical location
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Description source

    Contents list compiled from captions on photographs.
  • General note

    Digital order no:Album ID : 853358
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Szemao photographs: initialled FWC and captioned by photographer Frederic William Carey. Taken between 1896-1902.
  • Creator/Author/Artist
    Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920
    Carey, Frederic William, 1874-1931
  • Subject
    Postcards.
  • Place
    China
    Shanghai (China)
    Yangtze River (China)
    Tianjin (China)
    Yunnan Sheng (China)
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