Photographic Material Series, 1906-1992

Extent:

24 boxes

Scope and content:

Photographic materials in the collection chiefly consist of several formats of the approximately 5,000 images that Gamble captured during his four sojourns in China (1908, 1917-1919, 1924-1927, and 1931-1932) and visits to other locales including Korea, Japan, Russia, Hawaii, and San Francisco. The images document urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside. Gamble used the images to illustrate scholarly publications and in slide lectures. Formats include contact sheets, hand-colored glass slides, duplicate slides (35mm), copy prints, a photograph album (120 contact prints), and nitrate negatives. Also included are print and card indexes to the photographs, and the original negative sleeves (with annotations).

Processing information:

NOTE: The same numbering scheme is applied to contact sheets, negatives, hand-colored glass slides, and duplicate slides in the collection. Identification numbers typically include the roll number and the exposure number (e.g. 54/294), although some materials only bear the exposure number.

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