Untitled [Album Description/Provenance]

Creator: Unknown

Title: Untitled [Album Description/Provenance]

Date: Unknown

Extent: 1 leaf, manuscript (26.5x35)

Notes: From an album of photographs of China taken by Robert John Davidson. Title transcribed from caption when available. Manuscript 1 reads:

"These photos are believed to have been taken by Robert John Davidson before 1900-a complete copy of which was accepted by Queen Victoria. We think they must have been either stolen or lost from Chungking or Chengtu during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 - How they fell into the hands of Mr. Kemp is not known but I found them in a Chinese second hand store in Shanghai in 1927 & bought them for 2.00. Mother"

Second Manuscript reads:

"Syd. S Kemp 1916 S/S Kangwah. All up river photos over 20 years old. Scarce"

Format: Manuscript Leaf

Rights Info: No known restrictions on access

Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher

Part of: MS. Coll. 446 Clairmonte (Eileen) Papers.

Finding Aid located at: www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/clair...

 

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