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Shanghai Photograph Album, ca. 1920s.
Bernath Mss 113LOCAL
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Title:

Shanghai Photograph Album, ca. 1920s

Creator/Contributor:

MacTavish & Co., Ltd. (Shanghai), creator

Creator/Contributor:

Online Archive of California

Abstract:

Black full leather album 29 x 18.5 cm., with 33 black and white photos of Shanghai, China in the 1920s. The verso of each photo has a pencil caption of the image in English, a few showing a blue rubber stamp of the photographer, "MacTavish & Co. Ltd., Shanghai." The photos are of the people and environs around Shanghai, a majority being portraits showing the average person at work. A few are of famous scenic spots. Images include market views of produce and animals; Taoist and Buddhist priests; coffins and crematory jars; junks on the Huangpu River.

Date:

192u (issued)

Subject:

a-cc-sm
Shanghai (China) -- Pictorial works

Note:

Use of the collection is unrestricted.
Purchase, 2004.
Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.
Cite as: [Identification of item], Shanghai Photograph Album, Bernath Mss 113. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Preliminary finding aid available in the Department of Special Collections.

Type:

Photograph albums.
Black-and-white photographs.

Physical Description:

.2 linear ft.

Language:

English

Identifier:

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Use of the collection is unrestricted.
Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.