Asian & Pacific Studies - Historical Photographs

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/Asian-Historical-Photographs.html


11 Mar 2010

ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Self-description:
"This document [est. Sep 2008] is a part of Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html] and Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-PacificStudies.html]. It keeps track of leading on-line collections of still images of value/significance to researchers in Asian and Pacific Studies. Please mail tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au if you know of relevant information resource not in this list."

Site contents [annotated links to 93 online collections as of 11 Mar 2010]:

* Afganistan Old Photos (www.orientalarchitecture.com, US); * Afghanistan: Images from the Harrison Forman Collection (U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, Milwaukee, WI, US); * AGSL Digital Photo Archive - Asia and Middle East (U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, Milwaukee, WI, US); * Asian Historical Architecture (www.orientalarchitecture.com, US);

* Beato, Felice. c. 1860. Album of Photographic Views in China. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * Boerschmann, Ernst. 1926. Baukunst und Landschaft in China. [Architectural Arts and Landscapes in China]. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * Bond Photograph Library (Digital South Asia Library, U. Chicago, US); * Bucklin China Archive (www.bucklinchinaarchive.com, Auburndale, MA, US);

* Cambodian Genocide Program - Photographs (Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale U., US); * China 1972 [Cultural Revolution] Image Database (Dept. of Political Science, Wellesley College, MA, US); * China: Exploring the Interior, 1903-1904 (www.chinaexhibit.org, Sargentville, ME, US); * Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia (CHIA) (Chinese Museum, Melbourne, Australia); * The Cities/Buildings Database (U. of Washington, Seattle, US); * Colonial Pictorial Works Taiwan Image Collection (Special Collections & College Archives, Lafayette College Libraries, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, US); * Contemporary Photos of Central Asia - Views of Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Khyber Pass, Peshawar and Kabul (Thomas Cole Antique Rugs and Textiles, San Francisco, CA, US);

* Digital Himalaya Project (Dept of Social Anthropology, U. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK); * Doing Photography And Social Research In The Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948 - 1951: A Personal and Professional Memoir (The Ohio State U. Libraries, Columbus, OH, US); * [The Dutch East Indies in] Colonial World Fairs (The Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands); * The Dutch East Indies in Photographs, 1860-1940 (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV), Leiden, The Netherlands);

* Early Postcards of India and Ceylon (www.harappa.com, San Francisco, CA, US); * The East Asian [Digital] Collection (U. of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, US); * Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965 (South Asian Diaspora, South/Southeast Asia Library, UC Berkeley, US); * The Empire that was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (Library of Congress, Washington, DC, US);

* The Faces of Irregular Migrants [from Asia] Photograph Collection (The Asian Library, U. of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada); * The French Institute of Pondichery (IFP) - Photo Archives (IFP, Pondicherry, India); * Four Months of War, Shanghai 1937 (www.japan-guide.com); * Fusazo, Sugi'e. 1910. Souvenir of Nanking. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * Fuerer-Haimendorf Collection (School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London, UK);

* Gandhi Photos Collection (Asia Collection, U. of Hawaii at Manoa Library, Honolulu, HI, US); * Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection (Special Collections & College Archives, Lafayette College Libraries, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, US); * The Gertrude Bell Project (U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK); * Giles Pickford Collection including the Boxer Uprising (June-August 1900) (The Australian National U. (ANU) Library, Canberra, Australia); * The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 - Materials from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection (Brown U., Providence, RI, US);

* The Hawaii War Records Depository (HWRD) Photos (U. of Hawaii Library, Honolulu, HI, US); * The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946 (The Harvard College Library, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA, US); * High-definition Image Database of Old Photographs of Japan (The Nagasaki U. Library, Nagasaki, Japan); * Himalayan Art Resources (HAR) - Photographic Archives (Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, NY, US); * His Imperial Majesty's Shoot in Nepalese Terai December, 1911 (The Australian National U. (ANU) Library, Canberra, Australia); * Historic Camel Photos - Central Asia and Russia (www.camelphotos.com, US); * Historic Camel Photos - China, Mongolia and India (www.camelphotos.com, US); * Historic Camel Photos - Middle East Camels (www.camelphotos.com, US); * Historic Chinese Architecture in Singapore (nanyangtemple.wordpress.com, Singapore); * Historical Photographs of China (School of Humanities, U. of Bristol, UK & Institut d'Asie Orientale (IAO), Lyon, France); * Historical Photos of Central Asia - Images of Life in Central Asia (Thomas Cole Antique Rugs and Textiles, San Francisco, CA, US); * The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art (College of the Arts, Ohio State U., Columbus, OH, US);

* Indian Raj British Indian Photography 1845-1947 (www.harappa.com, San Francisco, CA, US); * Indonesia Independent - Photographs 1947-1953 (Netherlands Museum for Photography, Rotterdam, The Netherlands); * The Islamic Gallery: Photos and Artwork (Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (DILP), Spring Lake Park, MN, US);

* Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period (U. of Nagasaki Library, Japan);

* Keagle Photograph Library (Digital South Asia Library, U. Chicago, US); * Korean War Historical Images (IMCOM-Korea Photo Collections, The Installation Management Command-Korea Region (IMCOM), US Army Korea); * The Korean War, June 1950 - July 1953 (Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, Washington DC, US);

* Magic Lantern [Japanese] Slides Collection (U. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, US); * Mahatma Gandhi Research and Media Service (GandhiServe Foundation, Berlin, Germany); * Michael Lewis Taiwan Image Collection (Special Collections & College Archives, Lafayette College Libraries, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, US); * Micronesia Over the Years (Micronesia Seminar, Federated States of Micronesia); * Moluccan History and Culture in Pictures (The Moluccan Historical Museum (MHM), Utrecht, The Netherlands); * Morrison, George Ernest. n.d. Album of Hongkong Canton Macao Amoy Foochow. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * Morrison, George Ernest. n.d. Photographic Views of Canton. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * Morrison, George Ernest. n.d. Views of China. Vol. 1-2. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * Mumm, Freiherr Alfons, von Schwarzenstein. 1902?. Ein Tagebuch in Bildern. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan);

* The Nanking Atrocities (Online Documentary) (www.nankingatrocities.net, US); * [The Nineteenth c. Images of] Formosa (Reed College, Portland, OR, US);
* Old Images of Asia (www.imagesofasia.com, Chennai, India & San Francisco, CA, US);

* Pakistan: Historic Karachi (www.worldisround.com, US); * Photographs of Past and Present - Digital Silk Road (Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan); * Photos of Tibet in the early 1940's (Art History, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, US); * Picture Paradise - Asia-Pacific photography 1840s-1940s (The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, Australia); * Pictures from Tibet (www.iem.pw.edu.pl, Poland); * Pioneer Photography from the [19th c.] Dutch Indies (Prentenkabinet / Study and Documentation Centre for Photography (SDCF), U. Library of Leiden, The Netherlands);

* RAWA Photo Gallery: Afghanistan from 1992-2008 (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), Pakistan); * Rare Photos Capture China's 19th Century Tea Trade (Harvard Business School, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA, US); * The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China (The Harvard College Library, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA, US); * The Rinden Kanost Collection: China and Japan (Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies (IDEAS), Colorado Springs, CO, US);

* Sagimaro, Kojima. 1909. Views and Custom of North China. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * Sanshichiro, Yamamoto. 1906. Peking. (Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Japan); * Shackford Collection of Photographs of China (Asia Collection, U. of Hawaii at Manoa Library, Honolulu, HI, US); * Sidney D. Gamble Photographs (Archive of Documentary Arts, Duke U., Durham, NC, US); * Silk Road in Photographs (Digital Silk Road Project (DSR), National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan); * [South Asia and South East Asia] Photo Collection (The Kern Institute of Indology, U. of Leiden, The Netherlands); * SouthEast Asian images & Texts (U. of Wisconsin Libraries, UW-Madison, WI, US); * Southern Uzbekistan Historical Database: Image Library (Termez Archaeological Museum, Termez, Uzbekistan); * Subic Bay Naval Base, Republic of the Philippines (www.subicbaypi.com, US); * Svadesh videsh - Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections (India Office Collection, British Library, London, UK);

* Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images - Contemporary Transformations of China (Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images, Ithaca, NY, US); * Thomas, G.H - An American in China: 1936-1939 (Greatrix Press, New York, US); * The Tibet Album: British Photography in Central Tibet 1920-1950 (The Pitt Rivers Museum, U. of Oxford, UK); * Tibet - American Geographical Society Library (U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, Milwaukee, WI, US); * Turkestanskii Al'bom (Photo Album of 19th Century Russian Turkistan) (Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, US);

* Vanished Kingdoms: The Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China, and Mongolia, 1921-1925 (Burke Museum, U. of Washington, Seattle, US); * Virtual Shanghai - Shanghai Urban Space in Time (virtualshanghai.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr, France); * The Virtual Museum of Cham Architecture, Vietnam (onthe.net.au, Australia);

* Wilfred Thesiger Web Gallery (The Pitt Rivers Museum, U. of Oxford, UK).

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