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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine
Libraries
Title: Guttridge postcard collection
Creator:
Guttridge, Denis Christian
Identifier/Call Number: MS.SEA.011
Physical Description:
0.4 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1900-1932
Abstract: This collection comprises more than two
hundred postcards collected by Dr. Denis C. Guttridge. It contains a wide range of images of
places, people, events, and activities pertaining to Southeast Asia, and particularly to the
former French colonies of Indochina (Annam, Cochin China, Tonkin, and Cambodia). Other
countries are also included, such as Malaysia, Singapore, and Sri Lanka. The collection
features postcards from a multitude of publishers, based in cities throughout France and
Indochina. Some of these postcards have been used for correspondence, almost universally in
French, at times with insights into the subject depicted on the postcards as well as into
the lives of the colonists. Unfortunately, due to the bad quality of the paper, many
postcards have lost their versos. Only the versos including messages have been
preserved
Language of Material:
French .
Collection open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by
the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish,
please contact the Head of Special Collections and University Archives.
Guttridge postcard collection. MS-SEA11. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine
Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information
about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder
descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Gift of Denis C. Guttridge, 1995.
Processed by Olivier Muth in 2003.
Dr. Denis Christian Guttridge holds a B.A. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology (University of
California, San Diego, 1986), a M.S. in Biochemistry (California State University, Long
Beach, 1988), and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (University of California, Irvine, 1996).
From 1996 to 2001, he served as a postdoctoral associate at the Lineberger Cancer Center at
the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His laboratory studied "the role of Nf-kB in
cell growth and differentiation." Since 2001, he has been an assistant professor at the
Division of Human Cancer Genetics at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He was honored
with the Regents Fellow Award (UC Irvine) in 1990-1991, the Joseph S. Pagano Lineberger
Award in 2001, and the V Foundation Award in 2002.
The postcards have been collected by Guttridge's parents who left Vietnam in 1954.
For further information, a biographical article is available online through "The Ohio State
University" (http://www.cancergenetics.med.ohio-state.edu).
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection comprises more than two hundred postcards collected by Dr. Denis C.
Guttridge. It contains a wide range of images of places, people, events, and activities
pertaining to Southeast Asia, and particularly to the former French colonies of Indochina
(Annam, Cochin China, Tonkin, and Cambodia). Other countries are also included, such as
Malaysia, Singapore, and Sri Lanka. The collection features postcards from a multitude of
publishers, based in cities throughout France and Indochina. Some of these postcards have
been used for correspondence, almost universally in French, at times with insights into the
subject depicted on the postcards as well as into the lives of the colonists. Unfortunately,
due to the bad quality of the paper, many postcards have lost their versos. Only the versos
including messages have been preserved.
The collection is organized geographically, beginning with Indochinese cities and sites,
followed by Indochinese occupations and people, ending with other Asian countries' cities
and sites. Unless otherwise indicated, the geographical divisions are inhabited places. The
French name is followed by the Vietnamese one, if different, in square brackets.
Geographical or terminological clarifications are given in parentheses. The subject depicted
on the postcards is described thoroughly according to the Getty Art and Architecture
Thesaurus. Blank postcards are undated and are filed separately from those including
messages. Unless otherwise indicated, all postcards are blank.
This collection is arranged into 2 series. Series 1. Indochine [Indochina], circa
1900-1932. 0.3 linear ft. Series 2. Other Asian countries, 1927. 0.1 linear ft.
The following collections contain related materials:
- The Getty Research Library, Special Collections, ACHAC collection.
- Archives nationales, Centre des archives d'Outre-Mer (Aix-en-Provence, France), Fonds iconographique. See the online catalogue "BORA" through the website of the Archives nationales (http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr).
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris, France), Département des estampes et photographies. See the online catalogue "BN-Opaline" through the website of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (http://www.bnf.fr).
- Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet (Paris, France), Archives photographiques. See a sample of these photographs through the website of the Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet (http://museeguimet.fr).
Some of these photographs have been published in:
- Charles Daney, Indochine (Paris, Flammarion, 1992)
- Jean Noury, L'Indochine en cartes postales ([Cahors], Publi-Fusion, 1992)
- Michel Igout, Phnom Pemh, then and now (Bangkok, White Lotus, 1993)
- Michel Germain, Le Viêt-Nam autrefois (Lyon, Horvath, 1994)
- Jacques Borgé and Nicolas Viasnoff, Archives de l'Indochine ([Paris], M. Trinckvel, 1995)
- Thierry Vincent, Pierre Dieulefils, photographe-éditeur de cartes postales d'Indochine: plus de 4800 références sur le Tonkin, Annam, Cochinchine, Cambodge, Yunnan, Chine (Aix-en-Provence, T. Vincent, 1997)
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Postcards -- 20th century.
Buildings -- Indochina -- Pictorial works.
Indigenous peoples -- Indochina -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial
works.
Indochina -- Pictorial works.
Cities and towns -- Indochina -- Pictorial works.
Landscape -- Indochina -- Pictorial works.
Southeast Asia -- Pictorial works.
France -- Colonies -- Indochina -- Pictorial works.
Vietnam -- Pictorial works.
Cambodia -- Pictorial works.