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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections
Title: Photograph albums of Indochina
Creator:
Aéro Mre. Indochine
Identifier/Call Number: 2001.R.21
Physical Description:
2 album(s)
(498 photographic prints)
Date (inclusive): 1932-1936
Abstract: Two photograph albums documenting urban and rural aspects of French Indochina, compiled by a French pilot.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in English.
The albums are arranged in two series: Album I: Souvenir d'Indochine, 1933; Album II: Souvenir d'un séjour en Indochine, 1932-1936.
An additional album compiled by the same unidentified person, titled Souvenir d'Indochine 1931, resides in Special Collections
(
accession no. 93.R.94 ).
The albums were compiled by a French pilot in the service of Aéro Mre. d'Indochine during the 1930s.
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Acquired in 2001.
Photograph albums of Indochina, 1932-1936, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 2001.R.21
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2001r21
Processed and cataloged by Beth Ann Guynn. Translations provided by Shi Chen. Finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant
funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).
Scope and Content of Collection
These two albums contain photographs of French Indochina (present day Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos), documenting both urban
and rural aspects of the region. The albums cover a wide variety of subjects ranging from French institutions and industry
in Indochina, civil engineering projects, military posts and forts, and natural landmarks and views of the countryside, to
images of the various indigenous groups of Indochina, scenes of daily life and traditional agriculture, temples, tombs, pagodas,
and street, market, and river scenes.
The albums were compiled by a French pilot in the service of Aéro Mre. d'Indochine during the 1930s. Aviation-related images
include the air force stations at Tong and Bac Maï, a hydroplane flying over Along Bay, and a group of biplanes in flight.
Most of the photographs in Album I, titled on the spine Souvenir d'Indochine 1933, are from the former regions of Tonkin and
Annam (now Vietnam). Some images from the Laotian cities of Luang Prabang and Vientiane, as well as portraits of people from
various Laotian indigenous groups, are included at the end of the album. Included in the album are two hand-colored prints.
The title for Album II appears on its last page: Souvenir d'un séjour en Indochine 1932-1936. This album begins with a hand-drawn
map of French Indochina followed by a hand-colored studio portrait of the French pilot flanked by panels of Chinese good-luck
symbols. The album is divided into sections as follows: Tonkin, Cochinchine, Cambodge, Laos, and La Chine. Each section begins
with a page containing the name of the region and a hand-colored studio portrait of a person representative of the region.
Half of the album is devoted to Tonkin. Images of Cambodia, mostly from Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom, form the second largest
section. Included in the album are ten postcards, seven of which bear the credit: Huong Ky Photo Hanoi; two hand-colored prints;
and seven hand-colored photographs.
Album I has green half-leather covers. Album II has half-leather and blue silk covers with a dragon painted on the front cover.
Captions on the mounts are in French; many of the aerial photographs also have French captions and the signature Aéro Mre.
d'Indochine in the negative. Other photographs are signed G. G. (album II).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Pagodas -- Indochina
Occupations -- Vietnam
Relief (Sculpture), Ancient
Pagodas -- Vietnam
Sepulchral monuments -- Vietnam
Sepulchral monuments -- Indochina
Tombs -- Indochina
Streets -- Laos
Indochina -- Antiquities
Tombs -- Vietnam
Gelatin silver prints -- Vietnam -- 20th century
Photographic postcards -- Vietnam -- 20th century
Gelatin silver prints -- Indochina -- 20th century
Gelatin silver prints -- Laos -- 20th century
Aerial photographs -- Vietnam -- 20th century
Gelatin silver prints -- Cambodia -- 20th century
Aerial photographs -- Laos -- 20th century
Aerial photographs -- Indochina -- 20th century
Aerial photographs -- Cambodia -- 20th century
Indochina -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Vietnam -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Buddhist temples -- Cambodia -- Angkor (Extinct city)
Streets -- Indochina
Streets -- Vietnam
France -- Colonies -- Asia
Indigenous peoples -- Indochina
Architecture -- Vietnam
Indigenous peoples -- Vietnam
Architecture, Colonial -- Vietnam -- French influences
Cambodia -- Description and travel -- History -- 20th century
Vietnam -- Social life and customs -- History -- 20th century
Architecture -- Indochina
Angkor Wat (Angkor)
Laos -- Description and travel -- History -- 20th century
Indochina -- Social life and customs -- History -- 20th century
Vietnam -- Description and travel -- History -- 20th century
Vietnam -- Antiquities
Indigenous peoples -- Laos
Occupations -- Indochina
Indochina -- Description and travel -- History -- 20th century
Architecture, Colonial -- Indochina -- French influences