This winter will be remembered in the UK for extensive flooding. Floods in China are on a vastly different scale, the Yellow River having the solemn sobriquet ‘China’s Sorrow’. There are many photographs of various floods in HPC collections. It is interesting that the photographers were interested enough to risk their kit in capturing these expressions of a devastating force of nature.
Tientsin flood, September 1938, Morrison collection, Mo04-149.
Watermarks, Tientsin flood, September 1938, Morrison collection, Mo04-143.
Playing football on a flooded pitch, unidentified location, 1930s, Masson collection, Ma01-173.
