Bradfield Family Scrapbooks
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2005
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
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Languages:
English
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Bradfield Family Scrapbooks
Creator:
Bradfield family
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0161
Physical Description:
2.15 Linear feet
(2 archives boxes, and 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1932 - 1938
Abstract: A small collection of photograph albums and scrapbooks, probably kept by Mr. and Mrs. Vergil F. Bradfield. Vergil Bradfield
lived in Peking, China from 1919 to 1938. Two of the volumes contain photographs of China, including many images of Peking,
its people, and environs. The scrapbooks contain memorabilia, ephemera and photostatic copies of illustrated Chinese medical
texts.
Scope and Content of Collection
A small collection of photograph albums and scrapbooks, probably kept by Mr. and Mrs. Vergil F. Bradfield, parents of Robert
Bradfield. Vergil Bradfield lived in China from 1919 to 1938. He was associated with the Peking Union Medical College. His
son Robert Bradfield was born in China. The scrapbooks date from approximately 1932 to 1938. Two of the volumes contain photographs
of China, including many images of Peking (modern-day Beijing), its people, and environs. One of the scrapbooks contains memorabilia,
probably collected by Mrs. Vergil Bradfield, including newspaper accounts of Japanese military activities, invitations, and
Chinese ephemera. The remaining scrapbook contains photostatic copies of illustrated Chinese medical texts.
The most significant resource in the collection are the photographic images of Chinese city and rural life, probably taken
by the Bradfield family. Snapshots include street scenes, people, processions, the Foreign Compound, the Forbidden City, the
Temple of Heaven, and the Summer Palace. Also included are images of the Bradfield residences in China, family friends, family
servants, and Japanese military activities.
The family of Vergil F. Bradfield lived in China (probably in Peking) during the 1920s and 1930s. Bradfield went to China
in 1919 and was associated with the Peking Union Medical College. He left the country in 1938. Vergil's son Robert was born
in China around 1926.
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Bradfield Family Scrapbooks, MSS 161. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Acquired 1984.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
China -- History -- 1928-1937 -- Manuscripts
Beijing (China) -- Description and travel -- Photographs
Medicine, Chinese -- Manuscripts
China -- Description and travel -- Photographs
Photographs
Bradfield family -- Archives
Bradfield, Vergil F.
SCRAPBOOKS
Box 1, Folder 1
Photograph album ca. 1932-1938
Large album of photographs, probably most taken in the late 1930s. Most of the images are snapshots, probably taken by Bradfield.
Included are images of Peking and its environs, including street scenes, people at markets and processions, the Foreign Compound,
the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, and the Summer Palace. Also included are images of the Bradfield residences in China,
family friends, family servants, and Japanese military activities.
Box 1, Folder 2
Photograph album ca. 1932-1938
Box 1, Folder 3
Box 2, Folder 1