CHINA


Two albums of photographs, compiled by O.D. Rasmussen of the North China Daily Star, relating to his extended stay in China (Tientsin, Shanghai, Qufu, etc.) from about 1915 to 1935, approximately 100 mostly gelatin silver prints (192 x 255mm., and smaller), c.20 photographic postcards, autograph letters signed by H.G. Wells and Laurence Binyon, newspaper cuttings and related ephemera, many now loose, some fading and wear, one album contemporary cloth, the other defective boards, oblong folio, [c.1915-1935] (2)
|Photographs include: Temple of Confucius at Qufu (4); Temple of the Heavens in Seoul (5); 1917 floods at Tientsin (7, including refugee camps, "salvaging belongings", and "O.D.R. inspecting flood damage" on a bicycle); beaches at Peitaiho; "Sir Robert Hart and his Native [brass] Band. 1902"; Shanghai (c.20); local people ("Gathering Bamboo Shoot","Grinding Mill"; "Manchus in Dairen"); "Various Warlords", including Chang Hsun, Tsao Kun, Sun Yat-Sen (1924), and Chiang Kai-Shek; Conflict, including "Revolutionary Artillery" (1915), "Defending the Forbidden City", "1924. General beheaded by Wu Pei-Fu for dereliction of duty"; Tientsin, including Rasmussen in his capacity as a Voluntary Fireman; tennis and ice hockey.Other materials include an autograph letter to Rasmussen signed by H.G. Wells (1927, noting that "I will bear in mind your newer corrections... your letter shall be kept for reference"), and one by Laurence Binyon (1935, discussing some Tang Dynasty landscapes), and several printed maps of Shanghai.Provenance: Otto D. Rasmussen (1888-c.1960), journalist for the North China Daily Star and author of Tientsin: An Illustrated Outline History (1925), and What's Right with China (1928).