Tag Archives: children

About scratching, they were never wrong, the old masters

Posted on July 3, 2020 by Robert Bickers

OK, that’s not what W.H. Auden actually wrote, but while I have been enjoying the selections of photographs made by Tom Larkin for our new Instagram feed — @hpcbristol, go on, follow us — Auden’s poem ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’ … Continue reading →

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The joys of everyday life on the China Coast

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Helena F. S. Lopes

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 →

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Is it a mouse, is it a cat?

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Robert Bickers

It’s a cat, Felix the Cat to be precise. To continue my discussion about dates, identifications and being corrected, I can provide a little demonstration of the power of crowd-sourcing data-annotation. Well, that is the technical term. In practical terms, … Continue reading →

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Introducing the Malcolm Rosholt Collection

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Robert Bickers

Today we are able to unveil a significant new addition to our collections that is now available for viewing: the photographs of Malcolm Rosholt. Born in Wisconsin in 1907, Malcolm Rosholt arrived in China in 1931 with the intention of … Continue reading →

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham on poverty

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Guest

Maura Elizabeth Cunningham who is our guest blogger this week, is a historian and writer based in Shanghai. Follow her on Twitter @mauracunningham. The Americans and Europeans who came to China in the first half of the twentieth century often … 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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Amahs

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Robert Bickers

Omnipresent in many of the portraits of foreign families, especially children, is the amah. Often unnamed, or simply captioned ‘Amah’ , these were the Chinese nannies and wet-nurses, servants who suckled or looked after children. They were indispensable additions to … Continue reading →

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Silk filature or factory, Shanghai, c.1900

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

A filature was an establishment for reeling silk from cocoons.  There were many such factories in Shanghai and they must have employed several hundred children. Silk was of course a luxury item for the wealthy, and much exported.  This sobering … Continue reading →

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Egg and spoon race, Chefoo, Easter 1902

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

If some things Chinese were puzzling to foreigners, some things European may have seemed most odd to the Chinese.  How to explain the why and wherefore of an egg and spoon race? In the Commissioner of Customs’s garden at ‘Hillfields’, … Continue reading →

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1945: Facing the future

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Robert Bickers

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