China: Shanxi, 1897-1898

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188 prints

Scope and content:

Shockley's photographs of the Shanxi region in northwest China feature indigenous people, immigrant workers, local officials, Shanxi guards, soldiers, and Westerners such as E. Sabbione, an agent for the Peking syndicate. In one image, a western man poses by a sign reading "Jameson and Company Engineers." Landscape features photographed by Shockley include loess mountains with cave houses, tuff, limestone, and granite formations, and views of the Fen River valley.

Shockley also photographed mountain villages, stables and dwellings, religious buildings and figures of deities, courtyards in the snow, and cultivated fields. Work scenes depict laborers planting, fishing with cormorants, making salt, and packing coal on mules. He also shot iron furnace operations at Gaoping, Da Yang, and other locations.

Shockley wrote about the coal fields of Shanxi and other areas in China in several articles and presentations; some are available online (retrieved April 2016).

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Titles have been transcribed as they appear in original captions on the backs of prints. Descriptive captions and Chinese translations of titles were supplied by library staff. Duplicate prints are indicated by an extension ".2" after the image identifier.

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