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China -- Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

135th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron Flying Tigers photograph album, 1940s

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2956 Series 6
Scope and Contents

Contains various photocopies of the Flying Tigers photograph album. Materials date from the 1940s.

Dates: 1940s

135th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron loose photographic prints, 1940-1949

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2956 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains images of Lewis, Chinese people in daily activities, Indian villages, and daily life, Indian and British architectures, Burmese roads and scenes of daily life, and religious icons. Also includes a loose photographic print "25th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron" (separate from other prints).

Dates: 1940-1949

135th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron photograph album, 1940s

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2956 Series 4
Scope and Contents

Aluminum photo album, made from World War II fighter plane. Item dates from the 1940s.

Dates: 1940s

135th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron photographs in plastic sheets, 1944-1945

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2956 Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains images of China and its people, roads, buildings, irrigation systems, harbors, and fields.

Dates: 1944-1945

135th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron scrapbook and other material, 1940s

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2956 Series 8
Scope and Contents

Compact disc containing digital scans of entire scrapbook, and other materials.

Dates: 1940s

135th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron scrapbook pages, 1944

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2956 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook containing photographs of foreign travel, military officers, aircraft, and other topics. Materials date from 1944.

Dates: 1944

135th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron scrapbook register, 1940s

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2956 Series 7
Scope and Contents

Contains a register for the Lloyd K. Lewis scrapbook. Item dates from the 1940s.

Dates: 1940s

Helen Foster Snow negatives, approximately 1875-1991

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 5 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents Contains negatives and copy negatives of various sizes for the photographs found throughout the Helen Foster Snow photographs series. Box 177 contains negatives #1-3610, Box 197 contains negatives #3627-9621, box 200 contains negatives #9267-9705, box 201 contains negatives in larger sleeves from #448-9355, and box 163 contains various other negatives, mostly from the higher range of photograph numbers. Box 195 and 196 contain glass slide negatives for #11,143-11, 248. Materials date from...
Dates: approximately 1875-1991

Helen Foster Snow photographs, approximately 1853-2000

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 5
Scope and Contents Contains photographs, including slides and negatives, taken by or collected by Helen Foster Snow throughout her life. Photographs of Helen’s personal life include family members, friends, vacations in the United States, Europe, and other destinations, and trips she took throughout Asia with her husband, Edgar Snow. The bulk of the photographs come from her professional life, documenting her time as a photojournalist in China beginning in 1931 and later returns to China in 1972 and 1978. Also...
Dates: approximately 1853-2000

Helen Foster Snow photographs distributed by Magnum Photos, Inc., approximately 1933-1937

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 5 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains photographs taken during Helen's time as a photojournalist in China and distributed by Magnum Photos, Inc. Duplicates of these photographs are also found throughout the subseries "Helen Foster Snow photographs of Asia." Also included are photocopies of the original typed captions for the photographs. Materials dated 1933 to 1940.

Dates: approximately 1933-1937