Album, Photograph

Album, Photograph

Accordian style album containing black and white photographs of China A: Album with stiffened front and back covers are covered with faded black silk (worn at corners), front cover has rectangular piece of mottled pink and white paper in upper left corner; stiff white paper pages folded accordian style are glued to front and back covers with black and white photographs attached with clear adhesive corners, captions printed in black ink below, album can be folded out so that all the photographs could be viewed at once. B: B & W photo: 1st page, 5.375 x 3.25" young smiling child with "pigtail" on top of head, dressed in white outfit, standing among plants C: B & W photo: 2nd page, 3.5 x 2.5" two young boys standing in front of wall, one with a braid hanging to one side is holding chopsticks up to other boy's mouth, both wearing pants, no tops; caption: "Feeding with chopsticks" D: B & W photo: 2nd page, 2.25 x 3.375" 4 women and 2 children at river bank, 3 are squatting down to wash clothes; caption: "Wash Day (near Summer Palace)" E: B & W photo: 3rd page, 3.25 x 2.375" 6 boys standing in front of a stone gate with hill in background; caption: "Chinese boys" F: B & W photo: 3rd page, 2.375 x 3.375" adult sitting and 2 children standing on left in front of straw fence, woman on right is holding a tool over a large grinding stone, dog in foreground; caption: "Grinding Corn" G: B & W photo: 4th page, 3.25 x 2.25" boy on left in tunic, pants and hat is squatting and eating from bowl with chopsticks, man on right sits behind a metal stove?, passerby in background; caption: "Typical street scene" H: B & W photo: 4th page, 2.5 x 3.5" large tile roofed gateway at the end of a city street with buildings, canopies, sidewalks and a man crossing carring a shoulder bar with 2 containers; caption: "Hatamen Gate" I: B & W photo: 5th page, 2.25 x 3.25" city street, man in foreground squatting in front of a container with apples? and a basket, men in robes walking away in background, no caption J: B & W photo: 5th page, 2.375 x 3" man in robe and vest sits on the right, looking to one side, fanning with right hand, beside him is a table with merchandise and a boy leaning against it, a number of men in background next to shelves with merchandise; caption: "Typical store on street" K: B & W photo: 6th page, 2.375 x 3.375" city street, men in robes walking with large cylindrical banners; caption: "Funeral" L: B & W photo: 6th page, 2.875 x 4.375" procession of men dressed in robes walking along street in front of trees, man at right is carrying a banner on a stick, cylindrical banner in background; caption: "Funeral", printed on back in purple ink "Funerl Procession" M: B & W photo: 7th page, 2.625 x 4.375" men in foreground dressed in dark robes with dotted circle patterns and hats stand facing each other blowing on large horns resembling butter churns; caption: "Funeral", printed on back in purple ink "Long Horns music of Funera" N: B & W photo: 7th page, 2.75 x 3.375" procession of men dressed in dark robes with dotted circle patterns and hats, two carry gongs and banners on their shoulders; caption: "Funeral", written on back in pencil "Drums Funeral" O: B & W photo: 8th page, 2.625 x 4.375" procession of men carring a very large elaborate casket with supporting poles on their shoulders; caption: "Casket", written on back in pencil "64-72 men carry casket, Funeral" P: B & W photo: 8th page, 2.625 x 4.625" procession of boys dressed in white with dark vests and headbands carrying white plumes; caption: "'Money boys' in Funeral Procession", written on back in pencil "Funeral Procession" Q: B & W photo: 9th page, 2.375 x 3.25" young man turned toward camera, other man in white tunic and hat bends over a framework of small yarn winders, large yarn winder in background; caption: "Winding yarn" R: B & W photo: 9th page, 2.75 x 3.25" man wearing padded jacket and hat stands behind a table covered with a cloth bearing two white characters, canister with sticks, smaller canisters and white teapot on top of table, canvas wall in background; caption: "Fortune teller", written on back in pencil "Fortune Teller" S: B & W photo: 10th page, 2.875 x 4.375" man wearing padded jacket and a cap covering his ears is sitting down between two baskets (one with lid off) and a cylinder with bent bamboo crossing high over the top, building in background; caption: "Cobbler", printed on back in purple "The Street Cobbler" T: B & W photo: 10th page, 4.375 x 2.75" two men, one in a coat and hat and tipping a wooden water bucket, holding a long staff, the other is using a tool with a long handle, city street with a walled compound, rickshaw, bicyclist in background; caption: "Sprinkling the street", written on back in pencil "Street Water Sprinklers" U: B & W photo: 11th page, 2.375 x 3.125" two men in white robes with dark hats carry poles on their shoulders which support a sedan chair behind them, men and building in background; caption: "Bride's sedan" V: B & W photo: 11th page, 2.75 x 4.25" procession including a boy dressed in a quilted robe and hat carrying a standard in front, two sets of two men dressed in dark robes with white dotted circle designs and hats carrying decorated boxes on poles, building walls in background; caption "Gifts for the Bride", printed on back in purple "Sending Presents to Bride" X: B & W photo: 12th page, 2.375 x 3.375", deckled edges, scene of "sanpan" boats near dock and lantern, city in background, no caption, written on back in blue ink "Sanpans, The Bund, Eyes on Sanpans" Y: B & W photo: 12th page, 2.625 x 4.25", pallanquin with roof and embroidered dragon cloth on side being carried on poles by men dressed in dark tunics, hats and white pants, trees in background; caption: "Bride's chair", written on back in pencil "Wedding Chair", black and white flaw appears under pallanquin Z: B & W photo: 13th page, 2.75 x 4.25", city street, wagon with straw body and two large wheels pulled by 3 horses and a donkey at the back, buildings with printed panels in the background, no caption, printed on back in purple "The Chinese Wagons" AA: B & W photo: 13th page, 2.75 x 4.375" young man in white tunic and pants holding the handles of a large wooden wheel barrow with wooden tanks on top, sidewalk and buildings behind, sign in English on one building "CLEANING & DYEING, WOOLEN & COTTON"; caption: "Water wagon (has peculiar screech-need of grease)", written on back in pencil "Water Wheelbarrow" AB: B & W photo: 14th page, 2.75 x 4.25" man in robe and stocking cap stands beside donkey hitched to a two-wheeled wagon with a straw body, city buildings in background; caption: "Dung-baskets" AC: B & W photo: 14th page, 2.25 x 3.25" boat on lake with decorated roof, one man with long pole in water, two men sitting, trees in background; caption: "'Poling'-Pa Hai, written on back in pencil "Boat used from Jade Buddah to Dagoba, Winter Palace" AD: B & W photo: 15th page, 2.375 x 3.375", deckled edge, water buffalo standing next to small tree trunk in a field with 2 farm buildings in the background; caption: "Water Buffalo", written on the back in ink "water buffalo near Shanghai, Kianwan" AE: B & W photo: 15th page, 2.375 x 3.375", deckled edge, female water buffalo (head cut off in photo) and calf walk along city street, buildings in background; caption: "Water Buffalo and Calf", written on back in ink "Water Buffalo and calf" AF: B & W photo: 16th page, 2.375 x 3.375", two wheeled cart with rounded top and net window seen from behind, man standing on right, tree in background; caption: "Peking cart", written on back in blue ink: "Back of Peking Cart on a clear day" and in turquoise ink at bottom left "n.c." AG: B & W photo: 16th page, 2.375 x 3.375", same two wheeled cart with rounded top and net windows seen from the side, driver is sitting and holding the rains of a horse in front (head cut off in photo), man walking behind the cart, buildings in the background; caption: "Peking cart", written on back in blue ink "Peking cart" and in turquoise ink at bottom left "n.c." AH: B & W photo: 17th page, 2.375 x 3.375", foreground out of focus, boy carring pole on should with two large white cloth wrapped packages hanging at either end, men in background in front of buildings; no caption, "Street, Peiping, Boy carrying" AI: B & W photo: 17th page, 2.75 x 4.25", two men are sawing a propped up log with a two handled saw, trees, road and buildings in the background; caption "Wood sawyer", printed on the back in purple ink "Lumber Sawing in the Street" AJ: B & W photo: 18th page, 2.625 x 4.375", man on left in padded jacket and apron is serving with a ladel from a large steaming pot in front of him, man on right is eating from a bowl with chopsticks, people and city buildings in background; caption: "Restaurant", written on back in pencil "Outdoor Restaurant" AK: B & W photo: 18th page, 2.75 x 4.375", man dressed in jacket on pants stands on street in front a a cloth covered wheeled table laden with fruit in baskets, stools on left, buildings and signs behind "Feng Hsiang from Shang Hai Picture Frame Maker"; no caption, written on the back in pencil "Persimmon Merchant" AL: B & W photo: 19th page, 2.375 x 3.375", deckled edge, bare waisted man sitting down next to a low bench in front of a taller one, various metal containers on the benches, on the left and in the foreground, people in right background; caption: "Brass shop", written on the back in ink "Brass Shop, Peiping" AM: B & W photo: 19th page, 2.375 x 3.375", deckled edge, workshop man sitting in doorway of building in the background, stools, benches, metal pots on right; caption: "Brass shop", written on the back in ink "Brass Shop, Peiping"

1989.008