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Title
Item 29: Portraits of unidentified Asians, ca. 1900-1920 / photographs from the papers of George Ernest Morrison
Call number
PX*D 157/vol. 2
Level of description
item
Date

ca. 1900-1920
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs, Textual Records
Reference code
853319
Issue Copy
Partly Digitised : 20 photographs only selected for digitisation.
Physical Description
62 photographs - various sizes
1 letter
Scope and Content
BOX 1
1-4. Two falconers at my front gate
5-13. [Morrison’s household staff Sun Tian-lu and his child]
14-15. [Man in western clothes]
16-18. [People transporting carts on the river]
19. [Travellers with carts]
20. [The cart man, probably on the trip to Northwest China in 1910]
21. [Cart man and Muslim people]
22. [Soldier on horseback]
23-25. [People with carts]
26-35. [People in Southeast Asia]
36. [Entrance to temple?]
37. [Studio portrait of military officer] / photographic artist R. Maruki, Tokio, Japan
[Tien Jin on 11 July 1907]
38. [Studio portrait of a man / Tungfang Photographic Studio, City Shih Chia-chuang, Hebei Province]
39. [Group portrait, Baron Komura Jutaro (seated at right) and the Japanese envoy attending Portsmouth Conference,1905]
[Morrison was dispatched to report the news by The Times. Jutaro (the Japanese Minister) and the other ten ministers from other countries signed the treaty in 1901 with Yi Kwang and Li Hung-chang]
40-42. [Group portraits]
43. [The sports meet of Guilin public schools in Guangxi Province, 1905]
[The horizontal inscribed board reads “Long Live the Constitution”. At the time, Constitutionalism had been a public topic and began to strike root in the heart of people]
44. [Morrison's household staff with a visiting western couple, taken in front of the rebuilt west wing-rooms]

BOX 2
45. [Morrison's household staff, Sun Tian-lu (2nd from right in the 1st row)]
[This is the only photograph showing Sun wearing Western clothes]
46. [Morrison's household staff and their families]
47-48. [A funeral for a Japanese person] / S. Yamamoto, Peking
[Probably a professor working in China. The fourth person from the left, 1st row on the right side is Na Tung, the Grand Councillor. The man standing behind Na Tung is Morrison. The place may be the Palace of Yong He in Peking (Tibetan Lama temple)]
49. [A funeral for a Japanese person working in China] / S. Yamamoto, Peking
[The photograph includes Chinese and Japanese officials with the Lamas and Monks of the temple]
50. [Morrison's household staff and their families]
51-52. [The children of Morrison's household staff]
[Judging from the women’s feet (not tied), Manchu hairstyle and lipstick, they were ‘Bannermen’]
53. [Group portrait]
54. [Uygur children in Northwest China]
55. [A cavalryman, travelling in Northwest China in 1910]
56. [Morrison's household staff and child]
57. [Yuan Shih-Kai]
[In the dress of a Qing military official army, including the collar badge of military rank. The photograph was taken after March 1912, when he took up his position as temporary President of the Republic of China]
58. [Sa Fuo-ling]
[Sa Fuo-ling (1873-1984), a native of City Fuchow, Fujian province. The provisional government of the Republic of China recognized the Imperial Chinese Bank into the Bank of China and Sa was the second president of the Bank from 1913 to 1915]
59. [Duan Shu-yun]
Duan Shu-yun, a student of Imperial College in the late Qing. Winning the approval of Li Hong-chang, he was appointed an administrative official in Chili, and the highest civil administrator in Hupeh province during the period of Republic of China. He was a relative of Tuan Chih-kui and supported Yuan Shi-kai’s monarchical movement]
60. [Ding Bao-quan]
Ding Bao-quan, Judge of supreme Court of Shanxi province]
61. [Long Ji-guang & Long chinin-guang (brothers)]
[Lung Chi-kuang, a native of Mengtzu, Yunnan Province, was associate military governor in Guangzhou in 1912 and put down the revolutionaries in the ‘second revolution’ led by SunYat-sen in 1913]
62a. [Huang Chung-huei]
[Huang Chung-huei assistant to Chao erh-hsun (1844-1927), acting manager of the Ministry of Finance in 1904 and former Governor of Hunan (1902-1904). He and Morrison corresponded occasionally]
62b. Letter in Chinese from Huang Chung-huei.
Huang wrote the letter to Chou Chih-I, diplomat to Washington, on July 2nd, 1905 before Morrison left Peking for the Portsmouth Conference in America. The letter was intended to introduce Morrison to Chou, but Morrison did not take it.
63. List of 200 photographs of the Boxer Rebellion, 1900 (typescript, 10 leaves)
Language
Chinese
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

Listing compiled by Xiayu Wu, for the internship component of the Master of Museum Studies course, University of Sydney, July 2010.
Listing reviewed and amended by Warwick Hirst, July 2014
General note

This series of photographs includes duplicate photographs

A number of these portraits have now been identified.
Digital order no:Album ID : 823237
Subject
Adult Females
Infants--Pictorial works.
Adult Males
children
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905--Peace.
Yuan, Shikai, 1859-1916.
Topic
groups (people)
portraits
Place
China
China, Northwest.
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