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Worswick (Clark) Collection of Photographs of China and Southeast Asia
2003.R.22
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Clark Worswick collection of photographs of China and Southeast Asia
Creator: Worswick, Clark
Identifier/Call Number: 2003.R.22
Physical Description: 60 Linear Feet(45 boxes, 1 flat file folder, 1 roll)
Date (inclusive): circa 1860-circa 1939
Abstract: Over 1500 images by more than sixty Chinese, French, or English photographers document the diverse cultures of China and Southeast
Asia. Collected by the historian and curator of photography, Clark Worswick.
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Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content of Collection
Over 1500 images documenting the diverse cultures of China and Southeast Asia. The collection includes views of cities and
rural landscapes, trades and commercial pursuits, including urban architecture, ports, vessels and workers. Sixty photographers,
both European and Chinese, are represented in the collection including William Saunders; Milton Miller; Thomas Child, W. P.
Floyd; Lai Fong; Tung Hing; Yueh Chi; Ye Chung; John Hing-Qua; Pun Lun and See Tay. Formats include cartes-de-visite; stereographs;
photomechanical prints; drawings; and photographic prints, loose and in albums. Each entry in the finding aid represents one
image, unless otherwise stated. This inventory is preliminary; further processing and research are pending. Most titles are
from an inventory received with the collection and most are devised.
Arranged in order received, with some exceptions.
Biographical / Historical Note
Clark Worswick is a historian of photography and curator.
Processed by Vladimira Stefura and Beth Guynn. Further processing and identification is pending.
Received in several acquisitions, 1988, 1992, 1993.
Clark Worswick collection of photographs of China and Southeast Asia, circa 1860-circa 1939, Research Library, The Getty Research
Institute, Accession no. 2003.R.22.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2003r22
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Open for use by qualified researchers.
Selected albums andgroups of photographic prints have been digitized by the repository:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2003r22
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photomechanical prints
Portraits
Photographs, Original
Photographic prints
Cartes-de-visite
Shanghai (China)
Thailand
Hong Kong (China)
Japan
Gardens
China
Drawings (visual works)
Child, Thomas, 1841-1898
Hing-Qua, John
Lai, Fong, approximately 1839-1890
Chi, Yueh
Tung, Hing
Yi chang
Pun, Lun
See, Tay
Floyd, William Pryor, 1834-approximately 1900
Saunders, William Thomas, 1832-1892
Miller, Milton M., 1830-1899
Lai, Fong, approximately 1839-1890