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Bernath Mss 80
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Title: ATO Photographic Association China Photograph Albums,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1920s
Collection number: Bernath Mss 80
Extent:
.4 linear feet
(1 document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical location: Del Sur
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
ATO Photographic Association China Photograph Albums. Bernath Mss 80. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 2003.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains two black cloth albums ca. 1920s, containing 260 b/w photographs, most with English captions (some
of these descriptions seem rather speculative), featuring a number of scenes from various locales in China, Mongolia, and
Manchuria. Among the photographs are scenes of Kopaka Principality, showing yurts and Lamaistic temple buildings, a Lamist
Temple, executive office of a Mongolian Prince [Peitzumiao], young princes, highly decorated families of Mongolian officials
and their wives in ornamented gowns, views of Mongols and Mongolian costume, life, customs, dwellings, Lama Priests, Lama
Temples and Towers, musical instruments. There are also photographs of Northeastern Manchuria and its agricultural products,
wild rivers, pack mule herds, Kirin province, products, forests, the Sungari River, the snow-bound Huangshantzu, the Chiao
River, woodcutters work and life cutting telephone poles and railway ties. Soochow sights include: the Juikuangssu Tower,
canal streets, the "Venice of China", great architectural works such as arched bridges, Pagodas, Yenchi town in Chientao among
others.
There is an interesting series of photos of the
honghuzi ("Honghudze" in the descriptive text), the so-called red bearded bandits, active in Northern China and Manchuria in the 1920s
and said to be descended from the famous White Lotus Rebellion of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Some
of these captions describe: the Liaosi district police, an enemy spy captured, bandit hunting. Other areas noted include:
(Mongolia) the West Gate of Linsi in Eastern Mongolia, Yurts, farmers, poppy fields, granaries, cave life and archers, wrestling,
Pao or Mongolian huts, hooded ox- carts; also the Peitzumiao Lamaist temple, a festival, miners, Poshan, Changtien station,
the Taishan mountains, rainbow bridge, Nantienmen gate. Shanghai: Peace memorial, the port, Honan Road, a bird shop and bookstall,
Honkew market, the French concession, and the Hushinting pavilion. South Manchuria: a whaler's ship, Haiangtao Island, War
Memorial on Ta-Changshantao Island. Shangtung: Yangmatao Island, Shihtao, Yungchengwan, Paitsai, Chefoo, Fushan, Penglaiko,
Laichow, water castles at Fengchow, Niangniangwei and others.