• Title
  Item 19: Photographs of Asia, ca. 1890s-ca. 1920 / from the papers of George Ernest Morrison
• Call number
  PX*D 151/vol. 4
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1890s-ca. 1920
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  853301
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : panorama and 2 images (total of 9 images)
  
• Physical Description
  40 photographic prints, including panorama - 17 x 121 cm and smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  Most of the photographs are untitled and undated. They are large print duplicates of other photographs in the collection, chiefly of Morrison's journey in Northwest China in 1910.
  
  No. 1. (Digital images 1-7). The scene of a fire (panorama)
  No. 2. (Digital images 8-9) Morrison's cart [Feb 4th. My carts near Pinchow.]
  No. 3. [May 29th. The Ili ferry.]
  No. 4. [June 5th. Musart Pass.]
  No. 5. [March 11th. 'Great Wall' near Shan tan hsien.]
  No. 6. [March 9th. My carts and ponies.]
  No. 7. [March 22nd. Chia Yu Kuan from the east.]
  No. 8. [June 6th. Hua Hsuan Tzu - Khai luk.]
  No. 9. [May 29th. Hassa tents and sheep near Ili valley.]
  No. 10. [June 1st. Sarts purchasing horses.]
  No. 11. [June 12th. Ferry at the Aksu River.]
  No. 12. [June 6th. Tan’Ta Shih from across the Musart River.]
  No. 13. [March 22nd. Our midday rest house midway between Chia Yu Kuan and Hui Hui p’o.]
  No. 14. [July 4th. Kirghez tent and child.]
  No. 15. [April 6th. Chang Lui Shui.]
  No. 16. [June 6th. View from the Ma p’o tzu at Hua Hsuan tzu or Khai luk.]
  No. 17. [March 3rd. 15 li west from Ku lan hsien.]
  No. 18. [May 31st. Caravan in hills. Chinese-Aksu Kuchar and others going to Aksu.]
  No. 19. [Feb 1st. At the fair at Tien Chang i.]
  No. 20. [Street in characteristic village. March 10th.]
  No. 21. [July 7th. Khirgiz Tents on the Tuan Muran where passed night.]
  No. 22. [March 2nd. Lung Kou p’u – the ordinary stage.]
  No. 23. [June 5th. Musart Pass. On the Japarlik Glacier.]
  No. 24 [June 5th. Musart Pass.]
  No. 25. [Wayside group on way to Pinchow. Feb. 4th.]
  No. 26. [June 21st. Kashgar]
  No. 27. [March 13th. Train of ten camels in the soda-encrusted spongy plain ten miles east of Kao Tai hsien.]
  No. 28. [June 21st. Kashgar.]
  No. 29. [April 15th. The stage of [Chi-ko-ching-tze] in narrow pass in the hills.]
  No. 30. [June 5th. Musart Pass. On the Japarlik Glacier.]
  No. 31. [Our midday camp loading up. June 1st.]
  No. 32. [June 21st. Kashgar.]
  No. 33. [June 21st. On the way to Kashgar.]
  No. 34. [April 7th. Huang Lu Kang.]
  No. 35. [March 12th. The Buddhist Temple with the gigantic reclining Buddha, [Kanchow].]
  No. 36. [May 31st. Early morning. Our Mongol mill at the creek where we had passed the night.]
  No. 37. [May 18th. In the Pine Pass between the lake and Erh T’ai.]
  No. 38. [Feb 13th. Loess gulch near Hui Ning hsien [Lanchow].]
  No. 40. [Unknown city]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Contents list of digitised items - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2007/D00007/Morrison_px_d151.pdf
• 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
  
  Dates and titles in [] brackets compiled from album PXA 202, PXA 205 and PXA 206.
• General note
  
  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.
  Pages 213-218
  Scene of fire identified by author as "Hankow after being set on fire by the Empire troops in October 1911"
  Digital order no:Album ID : 950429
• Conservation note
  
  Photographs are housed in a folder resulting in damage to their edges. They would be better housed in a box.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  fires
  
• Place
  Beijing (China)
  China, Northwest.
  Asia, Central.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE544304

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