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A hunting we will go
Incidental mention of the Shanghai Paper Hunt suggests a new post. Here are two members of the Hunt in action. The Shanghai Paper Hunt Club dated is foundation to December 1863, but as its history, published in 1930, noted, there … Continue reading
Posted in Digitisation, Photograph of the day
Tagged books, hats, horse, hunt, leisure, protest, riding
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Photographs of photographers: Warren Swire
Photographs of photographers with their cameras are not often found in their own albums of photographs. So it was good to find a snap of Warren Swire with an unidentified woman wearing jodhpurs, taken by Ann Phipps (ph04-045). Ann was … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day, Photographers
Tagged balcony, Beijing, camera, diplomacy, farm, groom, horse, Legation, leisure, Phipps, photography, riding, Swire
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