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Finding Aid for Princess Der Ling’s collection of photographs of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi of China, 1903-1905
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Title: Princess Der Ling’s collection of photographs of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi of China
Date (inclusive): 1903-1905
Collection number: 529
Creator:
Der Ling, Princess.
Extent:
1 oversize box.
Abstract: Collection consists of 8 photographs of the Empress Dowager of China.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Princess Der Ling’s collection of photographs of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi of China (Collection
Number 529). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Daughter of Lord Yu Keng, a progressive and reform-minded Chinese official and sometime minister to Japan and France. Princess
Der Ling was educated first in missionary schools and then in a French convent. After completing her education, she returned
to China to become the first lady-in-waiting to the Empress Dowager. She lost her job when she became engaged to an American
whom she subsequently married. Later she wrote several books about the Dowager Empress and her experiences in the Chinese
court, including
Two years in the Forbidden City,
Imperial incense,
Old Buddha,
Kowtow, and
Lotus petals.
Collection consists of 8 photographs of the Empress Dowager of China, ranging in size from approx. 20" x 12" to 20" x 16".
The first photograph shows her with her ladies-in-waiting, including Princess Der Ling. In the second photograph, Princess
Der Ling is alone with the Empress Dowager; in all the rest of the photographs, the Empress Dowager is shown by herself.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908 --Photographs.
Der Ling, Princess --Photographs.
Other Index Terms Related to this Collection
Der Ling, Princess.