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Title
Item 17: Photographs of Asia, ca. 1890s-ca. 1920 / from the papers of George Ernest Morrison
Call number
PX*D 151/vol. 2
Level of description
item
Date

ca. 1890s-ca. 1920
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
853295
Issue Copy
Partly Digitised : 42 images
Physical Description
1 album (75 pages, 481 photographic prints): - 41 x 49 cm
Scope and Content
Included are photographs of local citizens and officials, soldiers and military cadets, missionaries, street scenes, landscapes, rivers, temples and churches, and Morrison’s household staff and home in Peking, Morrison's travels in Western and Northwestern China, the Siege of International Legations, the Plague in Manchuria in 1910, and the graves of Revolutionary martyrs. Locations include Peking, Port Arthur, Yangtze and Mekong Rivers, Chungking, Harbin, and Taiyuanfu.

Below is a listing of the 42 images that have been digitised:
1. p.3(i). The gate of the High School of Police
2. p.7(c). Giant
3. p.7(i). Navy boarding train, 1900 [French sailors kitted out for infantry fighting boarding a train in Tientsin]
4. p.9(a).Harbin, Feb. 1912. Outside the Old Plague Hospital. Physician Ku on the left, Secretary Chia, the vaccinator, Dr. Boo on the right.
5. p.9.(g). Village meeting
6. p.13(b). Pai lou
7. p.13(h). Streetscape
8. p.16(j). Church's door [in traditional Chinese style]
9. p.19(b). Parade [an official parade in Late Qing]
10. p.20(a). Suburb of Tai Yuan [A river behind Tai Yuan, Shanxi Province]
11. p.20(c). Foreigners on trip [with their Chinese bodyguards]
12. p.20(e). Harbin, Feb. 1912 [Anti-plague team burning of infected sheets in Section II]
13. p.23(f). New Army, 1906 [The audience at the Autumn Manoeuvre, 1906]
14. p.28(c). Mongol men - South East soldiers
15. p.28(a). Monument in Taiyuanfu
16. p.36(b). Qiou Jin's (Chinese heroine) tomb
17. p.36(d). Qiou Jin's (Chinese heroine) tomb
18. p.36(e). Qiou Jin's (Chinese heroine) tomb
19. p.36(f). Qiou Jin's (Chinese heroine) tomb
20. p.37(b). Students in military exercise
21. p.38(i). Cavalry [Mongolian Prince and his bodyguards passing through a street in Peking]
22. p.43. A temple theatre in Chung King, 1894
23. p.44. A city's suburb, 1894
24. p.46. Celebration for construction, 1905 [The official assembly in Kuelin, Kwangsi Province in 1905]
25. p.48. Jiling [A pavilion to honour the God of Literature in Kirin Province]
26. p.51. On a balcony in western China, 1894
27. p.53. Jiling [A village in Kirin Province]
28. p.54. Memorial archway at the Fort of Fu To Kuan
29. p.61. A local army in Yi Chang [Troops at Ichang]
30. p.65. Chinese students
31. p.72. Port Arthur
32. p.74. Chin Wang Tao, Dec. 18, 1901
33. p.28a. [Monument to the Christians killed in 1900 at Chutow Lane in Tai Yuan City.]
34. Verso of p.36(b)
35. Verso of p.36(d)
36. Verso of p.36(f)
37. Verso of p.36(e)
38. p.10d. [Morrison’s home in Peking]
39. p.11e. [The gate of Morrison’s home]
40. p.12e. [Morrison’s servant and horses at the backyard]
41. p.24e. Yen tun
42. p.29e. [Morrison’s servant and horses at the backyard]
Language
Chinese
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Published Information
Molixun yan li de jin dai Zhongguo = Old China through G.E. Morrison's eyes / Shen Jiawei bian zhuan ; Dou Kun deng yi. Fuzhou : Fujian jiao yu chu ban she, 2007. Edition Di 2 ban. G.E. Morrison's journey in northwest China in 1910 / captioned and photographed by G.E. Morrison ; compiled and translated by Dou Kim & Helen Lo = 1910, Molixun Zhongguo xi bei xing / Molixun tu wen ; Dou Kun Hai Lun bian yi.
Description source

Photographs of Siege of Peking (Siege of the International Legations) on pages 1a, 1d, 1g, 11h, and 14g are "Copyrights Applied for by C.A. Killie, Peking". Titles of photographs can be found in 50 Views of Siege of Peking / Charles A. Killie of Peking.

Most of the photographs are untitled and undated. Some captions are in Chinese.
Additional title in brackets are compiled from Molixun yan li de jin dai Zhongguo = Old China through G.E. Morrison's eyes / Shen Jiawei bian zhuan ; Dou Kun deng yi. Fuzhou : Fujian jiao yu chu ban she, 2007. Edition Di 2 ban.
General note

Digital order no:Album ID : 853361
Date note

Most of the photographs are undated.
Creator/Author/Artist
Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920
Killie, Charles A. (Charles Andrews), 1857-1916
Subject
Photograph albums.
Sieges--China.
Plague--China--Manchuria.
Place
China
China--History--Boxer Rebellion--1899-1901.
China, Northwest.
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