Item 04: Photographs of China, 1910 / from the papers of George Ernest Morrison

PXA 204

item

1 February-10 July 1910

Graphic Materials, Photographs

890078

1 album (99 photographic prints)

On 15 January 1910 Morrison set out on a journey through far western China and Russian Turkestan to Moscow.

1. At the fair at Tien Chang i [Feb 1st] Dianzhang town in Ping county, Shaanxi province, today]
2. Remnant of a former Temple [Feb 1st]
3. My carts near Pinchow [Feb 4th] [Bin county of Shaanxi province today]
4. Avenue on way to Ping Liang fu [Feb 7th]
5. View in Pai Shin Ssu [Feb 7th] [Baishui town of Gansu province today]
6. Guard-house with five beacons and watch-tower seen every 10 li [Feb 8th]
7. Loess gutch near Hui Ning hsien [Lanchow]. [Feb 13th]
8. Children who gather animal droppings [Feb 25th]
9. Wayside shrine with praying-wheel moved by water from spring [Feb 25th]
10. The Great Wall with the guard-house and the mud ruins - the characteristic feature of the country. My two ponies below [March 1st]
11. Shih pa li p’u. People standing at my inn door [March 2nd] [in Gulang county today]
12. 15 li west from … on way to Ku lan hsien [March 3rd]
13. A village beauty [March 3rd]
14. Liang chow - main street [March 4th] [Wuwei city of Gansu province today]
15. Liang chow. Twin pagodas inside Anting Men [March 4th]
16. Liangchow - view looking N. from Chung lou [March 5th]
17. Bishop Otto's seminary [March 6th]
18. My guide from Bishop Otto's - at 40 li p’u [at Tsu Shih Li Pu] [March 7th]
19. Tsu chih li p’u - characteristic ruins. [March 7th]
20. The ordinary defensible occupied farmstead of Liangchow plain [March 8th]
21. My carts and ponies [March 9th]
22. Dagoba at Shan tan hsien [March 11th]
23. Village 15 li west of Shan tan hsien [March 11th]
24. Kanchow - the Tien chu t’ang [March 12th]
25. The Buddhist Temple with the gigantic reclining Buddha [Kanchow] [March 12th]
26. Train of camels in the soda-incrusted spongy plain 10 miles east of Kao Tai hsien [March 13th]
27. Farmhouse on outskirts of Hei Ch’uan [March 15th]
28. View of watch-tower in oasis of Lin Shui [March 18th]
29. View from Splingaerd’s yamen looking north. Suchow [March 19th]
30. My caravan 20 li east of Chia Yu Kuan [March 21st]
31. Chia Yu Kuan [March 22nd]
32. Chia Yu Kuan [March 22nd]
33. The only soldier in the guard-house at midday. Old style. No arms in guard-house. [March 22nd]
34. Group at our mid-day rest-house [March 22nd]
35. Old woman by high-wheeled cart in Huo Kou [March 23rd]
36. The only inn at the stage of Ch’i tao kou [March 26th]
37. Only shelter for 30 miles between Ch’iho Chin hsia & Yumen hsien [East gate of Ansichow ruins. Gate towers dismantled and sand backed up against wall gate of wind dust] [March 24th] [Anxi county of Gansu province today]
38. Midday halt in the desert [March 28th]
39. The two Taoist priests of the wayside Kuan ti miao at Huang Yuan tzu midway to Sha Ch’uan [April 3rd]
40. The Kuan ti miao, built by the Taotai Hsu - Chien Ch’uan tzu (soda spring) [April 3rd]
41. Chang Lui Shui [April 6th]
42. Huang Lu Kang [April 7th]
43. Ch’ant’ous at Hami [April 8th]
44. South gate of Hsin Ch’eng [April 8th]
45. Tomb of Hami princes [April 10th]
46. Village of Erh p’o Ch’ant’ou. Village inns kept by Chinese. [April 11th]
47. My ch’ai Jen [Yamen runner] from Liao Tun [April 14th]
48. The pei lu on the way to T’ou Shui [April 16th]
49. Unemployed seated near domed-shaped shelter [April 17th]
50. Tsu Shih li p’o where we camped in the open steppe [April 20th]
51. Ch’ant’ou man and Mohammedan boy near Urumchi [April 24th]
52. Urumchi. Liang P’eng [Liang Yu-shu, Peng Yi-chung] [April 24th]
53. Urumchi. The Duke Lan. [Duke Zai Lan] [April 24th]
54. Urumchi. The Provincial Treasurer [Provincial Judge Jung Pei] [April 24th]
55. Urumchi. Site of execution of Chang Yin-huan [April 24th]
56. Camel caravan of Hassas in Steppes. [May 10th]
57. Cart with load of brushwood in plain - much dust [May 15th]
58. Island and Temple in Sairan Nor near San T’ai. [May 18th]
59. In the Pine Pass between the lake and Erh T’ai [May 18th]
60. Ku Lou of Hsin Ch’eng [May 20th]
61. On the way to Kuldja [May 20th]
62. Kuldja. The Ili Ferry [May 20th]
63. View in Kuldja. [May 20th]
64. Taranchi father at Tu ma shuk pa ta ha. [May 29th]
65. Hassa tents and sheep near Ili valley [May 29th]
66. The Ili ferry [May 29th]
67. Hassa oxen in defile - carrying timber [May 30th]
68. Caravan in hills - Chinese-Aksu Kuchar and others going to Aksu [May 31st]
69. Lamasery of Hu no kai [June 1st]
70. Sarts purchasing horses [June 1st]
71. Musart Pass [June 5th]
72. Musart Pass. On the Japarlik Glacier. [Ispartik Glacier] [June 5th]
73. Tan’Ta Shih from across the Musart R [River] [June 6th]
74. My caravan bashi - Kuldja to Aksu [June 6th]
75. View looking up the lower Musart Valley [June 7th]
76. Hsin Ch’eng. [June 11th]
77. Ferry at the Aksu River [June 12th]
78. Our inn-yard in Hsin Cheng. [June 12th]
79. Our people at Chadir [June 15th]
80. Kupru Robart. Late in the evening [June 19th]
81. On the way to Kashgar [June 21st]
82. Kashgar [June 21st]
83. Kashgar [June 21st]
84. Kashgar [June 21st]
85. Kashgar [June 21st]
86. Kashgar [June 21st]
87. Kashgar [June 21st]
88. Kashgar [June 21st]
89. Tablet Temple. Min Yul [Tibet Temple] [July 3rd]
90. Kirghez tent and child [July 4th]
91. River crossing at Aksalar [July 5th]
92. Ulugchat [July 5th]
93. Fort at Yehgin [July 6th]
94. The Kizil Su near Irkeshtam - camel packs in the bed - among them Macartney’s Tarantass [July 6th]
95. Khirgiz old gentleman in the Tuan Muran [July 7th]
96. Khirgiz lady on the Tuan Muran [July 7th]
97. View looking W. from the Taldek Pass [July 8th]
98. Near Kizil Kurghan [July 9th]
99. Cart near Osh [July 10th]

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

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, 莫理循中国西北行 / 莫理循图文 ; 窦坤, 海伦编译.

Dates in brackets compiled from album PXA 202.

Additional information in brackets from 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, 莫理循中国西北行 / 莫理循图文 ; 窦坤, 海伦编译.

The photographs from this album are duplicated in: Item 02: Photographs of China, 1910 / from the papers of George Ernest Morrison (PXA 202/vol. 2)
These are duplicates of photographs in PXA 202/vol. 2 dated 1 February-10 July 1910.
"This was the most important trip Morrison undertook while in China: a journey from Beijing to Russia through far Western China in 1910."

Reference:
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.
Morrison of Peking. p. 34

Based on album PXA 202

Album covers worn; some photoprints have silvered

Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales