Harvard-Yenching Library
Address:
2 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact:
Raymond Lum
Telephone:
617-495-0585
Fax:
617-496-6008
Email:
Repository website URL:
http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvard-yenching
Description of repository / collection image holdings:
The Harvard-Yenching Library is Harvard University's primary resource for research materials on traditional and modern East Asia, in East Asian and Western language. It holds the largest collection on East Asia in an academic library outside of Asia, with holdings of well over one million items in every format. Its photographic collections encompass some 70,000 original images. The bulk of the photographic holdings relate to China, with smaller numbers relating to Japan and Korea. Although some 5,000 of the images were made by a professional photographer, most were made by amateurs in the course of their work and residence in Asia, particularly as missionaries. The collections include photographic albums produced for the tourist trade, photographs contained in scrapbooks, loose images found in collections of personal papers, (e.g., British American Tobacco Co., Chinese Customs Service, Muslims in China). A unique collection, the Hedda Morrison photographs, document lifestyles, street scenes, handicraft production, religious observances, and architectural features, all of which virtually disappeared in the 20th century.
What we have in VIA:
Photograph collections in VIA include the Hedda Morrison photographs of China, 1933-1946; Hedda Morrison photographs of Hong Kong, 1946-1947; the Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr., photographs of Muslims in China, 1926-1937; the Edward Bangs Drew Collection, including Chinese Maritime Customs Service images; and the library's holdings of photographs of the borderlands of western China made by Joseph Rock. Also available in VIA is the library's collection of Chinese rubbings.
The Morrison and the Pickens collections are described on web pages that are part of the Harvard-Yenching Library's home page: http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/harvard-yenching/. Joseph Rock photographs are included in the Arnold Arboretum's web page for its LDI-funded project "South Central China and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity," http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/library/tibet/expeditions.html.
Copyright and Permissions:
The material in this collection is owned or held by the Harvard-Yenching Library. Some of the images, text and other content in VIA (collectively, the "Content") is protected by copyright law. In some cases, the copyright is owned by other parties, and Harvard is making the Content available to you under license or under the fair use doctrine.
The Content is provided for your personal, noncommercial teaching and research use. You may not copy, publish, post, distribute, display, perform, or otherwise make available any of the Content protected by copyright, except as may be permitted under fair use or another copyright law exemption. If you wish to make any such use of the Content, you must obtain permission from the copyright holder, which may be Harvard or another party. Please contact Raymond Lum.
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