Category Archives: Elsewhere on the net

E is for … ebay (and eouch)

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Robert Bickers

For a change this post is about photographs that have been lost. A recent sale on Ebay of some materials found during a house clearance in southwestern England, left traces online of what seems to be a historically interesting voyage … Continue reading →

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Smiles and coracles, 1938

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Robert Bickers

This snapshot of (I think) some boatside begging, was taken or acquired by Edgar Taylor, who served in the British Royal Navy, and was possibly taken at Hankow (Hankou, Wuhan) on the Yangzi. We do not know much about the … Continue reading →

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Back to the past

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

Prior to 1949, and again more recently, foreign tourists avidly visited the marvellous sights in China. The tourist trail would include the Ming Tombs, just forty kilometres north of Peking (Beijing), here being explored in the 1920s, by donkey in … Continue reading →

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Entrance to the Huihuiying Mosque, Peking

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

To mark the Islamic New Year, here is part of a rare photograph of the entrance to the Huihuiying Mosque [回回营清真寺遗存], in Donganfu Hutong, near Beihai Park, Beijing, taken about 1870. The image shown above, is a cropped version to … Continue reading →

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Sailing on

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Robert Bickers

We have been on our holidays, but were also overwhelmed by correspondence resulting from July’s BBC Radio 4 documentary about the project, ‘Old Photographs Fever‘, and the accompanying BBC News slideshow. Many wonderful new collections were offered to us, and … Continue reading →

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A photographer’s view

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

The great photographer Diane Arbus once observed that ‘a photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.’ NA07-107 is the very picture of such secretive photography, if only because it is such … Continue reading →

Posted in Digitisation, Elsewhere on the net, Photograph of the day | Tagged Arbus, Archives, bell, Berger, Confucious, double, exposure, Faurer, gong, Kongzi, Moholy-Nagy, National, percussion, photography, Qufu, Shandong, temple, TNA | Leave a comment

Listen again

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Robert Bickers

‘Old Photographs Fever: The search for China’s pictured past’, which explores our project through interviews with the team, with some of our contributors, and with some of those who make use of the project, was broadcast earlier today on BBC … Continue reading →

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Taikoo ships and buildings

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Robert Bickers

For readers interested in the photographs of shipping that can be found in the collections, notably those of G. Warren Swire, or the architectural history of the treaty ports, there are two new sites to investigate. John Swire & Sons … Continue reading →

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N is for Ningbo

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Robert Bickers

The team has recently been corresponding with an informal group in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo, who are researching the architectural heritage of this former treaty port. Opened under the first of the Sino-British treaties (Nanjing, 1842), Ningbo was … Continue reading →

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Festival floats in procession, Szemao, Yunnan Province, c.1896-1902

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

Frederic William Carey served in the Chinese Maritime Customs, from 1891 to 1928. When stationed at Szemao in the province of Yunnan around the turn of the century, he studied the area and the multivarious tribes peoples, becoming an authority. … Continue reading →

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