197/5112
| Collection |
Hedda Morrison Photographs of China |
| Title |
Hedda Morrison photograph collection |
| Author / Creator |
Morrison, Hedda, 1908-1991, German [photographer] |
| Abstracts |
Twenty-nine photograph albums containing almost 5,000 black and white photographs of art, architecture, landscape architecture, architectural details, people, agricultural activities, commercial activities, cultural activities, recreational activities, religious practices, and landscape views in Beijing, Hebei Sheng, Shaanxi Sheng, Shandong Sheng, and Shanxi Sheng in China. Subjects include altars, animals, artists, boats, bridges, Buddhists, Buddhist temples, caves, cities, clothing, coiffures, Confucian temples, craftspeople, Daoists, Daoist temples, factories, farms, festivals, fishing, food, Forbidden City, funerals, furniture, games, gates, graves, islands, Japanese, jewelry, lakes, markets, monasteries, mountains, murals, musical instruments, Muslims, nunneries, pagodas, paintings, palaces, people at work, performers, pilgrims, portraits, processions, restaurants, ritual objects, ruins, sculpture, shops, shop signs, soldiers, street scenes, street vendors, tombs, tools, toys, trees, vehicles, villages, weddings, and workshops. |
| Form / genre |
photographs photograph albums |
| Type |
still image |
| Creation Date |
ca. 1933-1946 |
| Notes |
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| Related work |
Includes Buddhist nuns album Includes Chung Hai album Includes Fa-hai ssu album Includes Forbidden City, temples, walls, Ming album Includes Funerals, weddings, Miao-feng Mountain album Includes Handicrafts album 1 Includes Handicrafts album 2 Includes Handicrafts album 3 Includes Hua Shan album Includes Jehol album 1 Includes Jehol album 2 Includes Lost Tribe album Includes Nan-hai album Includes Pai-yün kuan album Includes Pao-ting Fu album Includes Pei-hai album 1 Includes Pei-hai album 2 Includes Portraits album Includes Shantung album Includes Shop signs, calls, houses, fields album Includes Street life album 1 Includes Street life album 2 Includes Summer Palace, Jade Fountain, hills temples album Includes Tai miao album Includes Temple of Heaven album 1 Includes Temple of Heaven album 2 Includes Untitled album Includes Wei Hai Wei album Includes Yün-kang album |
| Culture |
Chinese |
| Materials / Techniques |
Twenty-eight photograph albums housed in 24 cloth-covered cases, and one partial album with no case. Includes 10 albums with side-sewn bindings, 15 with accordion-fold bindings, and 4 with loose pages. |
| Identifier |
olvwork101173 |
| Use restrictions |
Harvard-Yenching Library:Access to original photographs, negatives, and albums in the Hedda Morrison photograph collection is restricted. Photographs in the Hedda Morrison photograph collection: Copyright various dates, President and Fellows of Harvard College; all rights reserved. Digital images made from photographs in the Hedda Morrison photograph collection: Copyright 2000, President and Fellows of Harvard College; all rights reserved. Photographs and images from the collection may be reproduced only with written permission. Contact the Harvard-Yenching Library for permissions and fees. |
| Language |
eng |