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Tag Archives: Peking
The joys of everyday life on the China Coast
The F. Hagger collection encompasses some 260 photographs of China in the early 1930s, as well as many of Japan, Singapore, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), North Borneo, Manila, India, Egypt, and others which are not on the Historical Photographs of China … Continue reading
The Kodak comes to Peking
Dr Andrew Hillier has been looking at the unpublished letters of a British Student Interpreter, later Consul, Walter Clennell. The correspondence highlights the importance of photography to Legation life in Beijing in the late 1880s. Andrew recently completed his PhD at the University … Continue reading
Posted in cross-searching, Family photography, Guest blogs, History of photography in China
Tagged Beijing, Consular Service, Legation, Peking
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Dancing in Peking on St Patrick's day
The blog plays catch-up, as it is Oxford University’s Professor of Art History, Craig Clunas, who spotted that we have a St Patrick’s day photograph (Ph04-092), and has tweeted it via his ever-interesting twitter-feed @CraigClunas. This is a spring picnic — … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day
Tagged Peking, picnics, Sir Miles Lampson, tomb
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Peking Picnics
A figure who looms large in Sino-British diplomatic relations in the late 1920s — literally because he was well over six foot tall, and hefty with it — was Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, later 1st Baron Killearn. Uncle Miles is … Continue reading
Mid-day meal at a street food kitchen, Peking, 1915-1920
The Historical Photographs of China project was recently kindly given a copy of ‘The Pageant of Peking’. Published in Shanghai in 1920 and bound in exquisite gold blocked turquoise silk, this coffee (or tea) table book is introduced by Putnam … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day, Photographers
Tagged Admiral, advertisement, Ballard, Beijing, carrier, cook, eat, food, lunch, Mennie, pedlar, Peking, people, photogravure, pictorialism, steam
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